Re: powerbutton

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> On 2012-03-29, mlsparc@mailserver.ipstatico.net wrote:
>
> > I've installed debian 6 stable on an old sparc sun ultra5
> >
> > if I type:
> > halt
> > or shutdown -h now
> > or init 0
> >
> > all works fine
> >
> > If I try to shutdown using the powerbutton, the computer will 
> > go off but a lot of errors appear on the screen before going off
> >
> > How could I resolve the problem?
>
> I've had an ultra5 and ultra10 for years and always used halt, etc.
> I never considered using the powerbutton to shutdown. Anyway, I
> tried it on my ultra10 running wheezy and it got as far as
> "...Stoping disk
> Asking all remaining processes to terminate..."
> and hung there without shutting off until I cut the power.
> When I powered the machine back on, it said that the disk wasn't
> cleanly unmounted, did a fsck, and carried on.
> This machine has a SCSI controller and drive.

I've switched to using  poweroff  rather than  shutdown  at the end of a 
session, since it works reliably on both SPARC Linux and Solaris, and on 
most PCs.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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