Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> writes:

> Hi Rodolfo,
>
>> Two days ago, after full-upgrade, as explained, it was impossible to boot
>> neither to reboot and I had to unplug the machine.  Thanks to lister's help,
>> the above commands through debian-installer in rescue mode managed to repair
>> the system.  But now two problems still remain:
>
> I can help you with 1 I think
>
>> 1) I can't halt the system.  After the `halt' command, the system stops
>> saying [.  47.148880] reboot: System halted Then nothing happens and I have
>> to unplug the machine;
>
> [..]
>
> It was explained a while ago here that a shutdown after halt was actually a
> bug. Halt should just halt the system.

> ----<quote>-----

> Don't shutdown with the halt(8) command, it is not supposed to power off the
> machine, and the systemd maintainers consider it a bug[1] that the sysvinit
> implementation does it anyway.  Use the poweroff command instead.
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746650
> ----</quote>-----
>
> Bonno Bloksma


I've always used `halt' to shutdown the machine.  Is `poweroff' proper to do
that?

Rodolfo