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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 9 August 2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines
> anymore on shutdown.
> The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered.
> I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs.
>
> Does someone else see that?

Humm, in fact it looks like halt == shutdown -H now whereas in the
old days it was equivalent to "shudown -P" (which still works OK).

Since "halt" is now provided by systemd, this is were the regression
come from...