Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

[martin@grachtwal.nu]

>> In a lenny chroot, on the same system, rc6.d/S90reboot calls 'reboot -d
>> -f
>> i' and that works like I'd expect; the chroot is stopped and the system
>> keeps on running.
>> In the squeeze chroot we have rc6.d/K09reboot and the same 'reboot -d -f
>> -i'.
>>
>> I will check if the -f does the trick but I still think the behaviour
>> should be the same for both lenny and squeeze. I also think that the
>> ability to reboot a system by rebooting a chrooted environment shouldn't
>> be possible so the bug remains.
>>
>> According xen or kvm; eventually we will make that change of course, but
>> at the moment that's not something we're focussing.
>>
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> Your script only calls all K* scripts (not S* scripts) when stop is
> invoked.  Hence in the system where reboot is S90, it won't call it.
> Where it's K09, it will be called.  I suspect if you rm K09reboot in
> the squeeze chroot, it will fix the behaviour to what you want.
>
> As far as rebooting from inside a chroot rebooting the system I don;t
> know whether that's a bug or not.  As far as I'm aware it has been the
> way it's behaved for a long while...not sure what you can do to
> prevent it even...

Ah, never occured to me that would be considered as normal behaviour. To
be honest, I still think it shouldn't be possible but I don't want to
start a religious fight about that.
I was so worried by the (for me) spontanious reboot I didn't check as
carefully as I should have. My bad.

Thanks for all the fast responses and sorry for my ignorance.
Martin




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