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

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> On 08/09/2012 02:35 PM, Olivier Blin wrote:
>>
>> Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> There was a discussion some months back about this (I forget whether it was
> here or cooker).  Basically, someone discovered that "halt" had been
> out-of-spec for years because it wasn't *supposed* to power the machine off
> --- you were supposed to use "poweroff" for that. So it got "fixed", and a
> bunch of people started asking "what happened ?".

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.