Bug#622750: general: "shutdown -r" does not reboot

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>]

dang I didnt' read all.  you should only see that for entering runlevel 
one.  are you sure you didn't reboot ?

sulogin prints that message

mabye it's because you specified no time?

it is remotely possible new init scripts somehow get you to runlevel 1, 
init(1) invokes sulogin(1), and reboot is never executed.

you didn't delete any rc.d scripts in /etc/ did you?


John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
> I'm not a debian bug handler but...
>
> try "shutdown -t0 -r now" and re-submit if it doesn't work (I think 
> specifying time is required?)
>
> Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > Package: general
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > when I am logged in (by ssh or on tty1-tty6) as root on the machine 
> > where I am
> > writing this from and enter "shutdown -r now", the machine does not 
> > reboot,
> > but instead I get the message:
> >
> > Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue):
> >
> > Regards
> >   Christoph 
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 6.0.1
> >   APT prefers stable-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash