Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!
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On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>
>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>> 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'...
>
> It's in the BSDs that halt&co don't call shutdown. It's been called
> in sysvinit for a long time.
It's entirely possible that that environment in question does not use
sysvinit even in part, so it's not entirely impossible that it's
actually using halt etc. from a non-sysvinit source. I'll have to
investigate if I decide it's worth the bother to find out.
Thanks for the information; this is a potentially interesting puzzle
where I didn't even realize one might exist.
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