Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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.
You're welcome.
FTR, even sysvinit 2.57 in pre-buzz had the note about this being a
version where using halt&co is OK.
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