[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown

[Olivier Blin]

Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>
>> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:04 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Yes because it totally makes sense to have a command to halt the
>>> operating system but leave the machine using some power for nothing
>>> (and preventing you from powering it on with wol). I am sure someone
>>> believes it can be useful in some strange scenario.
>>
>> It's very useful and it was essential for me during the previous release
>> to debug shutdown logic.
>
> The shutdown command has always been used for this.

But with the previous initscripts/sysvinit, the halt command was
eventually handled by /etc/init.d/halt, which automatically passed the
-p argument to halt.

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Olivier Blin - blino