Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!
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On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>
>> On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
>>> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel
>>> 0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will
>>> be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see
>>> the shutdown(8) manpage.
>>
>> That's weird, and if it represents a change made by systemd,
>> possibly unfortunate. I know of at least one somewhat degenerate,
>> but broadly distributed and not uncommonly used, environment (which
>> I think may be based on SuSE) where 'shutdown' does not work at all
>> - exits with an error when called - but 'halt' and 'reboot' do
>> work. (And probably so does 'poweroff'.)
>
> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since 6/squeeze.
Ah, so that may be a Debian-specific behavior, rather than an upstream
one?
That might explain the discrepancy, if so.
If not, perhaps the environment in question is simply using older
versions of those tools, which do not yet invoke 'shutdown'...
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The Wanderer
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