On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:55:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jesse Smith writes ("Bug#586709: Think I found the problem"):
> > [implementation details]
>
> Thanks for looking at this bug. I'm afraid I don't think I agree that
> it should be closed, thoug
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> the current actual behaviour in the manpages. Rather, it would be to
> try to write down what the desired behaviour would be, and then
> document and implement it.
Indeed.
As a user, my current expectation is that “halt” shuts down without
poweroff, and
Jesse Smith writes ("Bug#586709: Think I found the problem"):
> [implementation details]
Thanks for looking at this bug. I'm afraid I don't think I agree that
it should be closed, though.
AFAICT the user's complaint is that, when halt or poweroff actually
invo
On 10/25/18 6:00 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 10/25/18 3:16 AM, Jesse Smith wrote:
>> I believe I found the problem here
>> [...]
> Can you provide a patch then?
>
>
Short answer: No, I don't think so because the concept of the init
scripts and related defaults prevent the user from doing what t
On 10/25/18 3:16 AM, Jesse Smith wrote:
> I believe I found the problem here
> [...]
Can you provide a patch then?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
I believe I found the problem here, after much poking around. Turns out
the issue does not appear to be in the halt source code, but in the
/etc/init.d/halt file.
The /etc/init.d/halt file does some checking to see what the contents of
the /etc/default/halt file is (halt or poweroff). If it's the
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