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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-August/018032.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-August/018032.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a6f36c39e --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-August/018032.html @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20latest%20kernels%20not%20powering%20off%20machines%20on%0A%09shutdown&In-Reply-To=%3C50241D65.8010805%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="018030.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="018028.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20latest%20kernels%20not%20powering%20off%20machines%20on%0A%09shutdown&In-Reply-To=%3C50241D65.8010805%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Aug 9 22:28:21 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018030.html">[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018028.html">[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#18032">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#18032">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#18032">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#18032">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/08/12 20:55 did gyre and gimble: +><i> On 9 August 2012 21:51, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote: +</I>>>>>><i> But even since I know it has changed, 10 years habits had me typing +</I>>>>>><i> halt and then saying some bad words as it meant I would not be able to +</I>>>>>><i> power it on again for a few days. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> OK, how about a compromise, "urpmi restore-broken-halt-command" which +</I>>>>><i> just contains a single file /etc/profile.d/99broken-halt-command.sh +</I>>>>><i> which contains: +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> alias halt=poweroff +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Well my own machine already has halt='halt -p' since the day I lost it +</I>>>><i> like that :) +</I>>>><i> What annoys me is that I don't see the point of changing the default +</I>>>><i> behavior of a (quite important) command while the new default is +</I>>>><i> something people would only want to use in very rare cases and will +</I>>>><i> cause problems to most of them. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Well, for me personally, I always prefer to fix things that are broken +</I>>><i> and not use history as an excuse for keeping broken behaviour. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I could counter argue that's a lame excuse for breaking existing documented +</I>><i> behavior. Scores of people rely on that behavior. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What's more it's an established behavior in some communauties (eg: the kernel +</I>><i> one) to not break usage for the purpose to fix things if it breaks +</I>><i> existing apps or +</I>><i> usage. +</I> +Well as I've said if you can convince upstream I'll happily go with +that. I do not want to introduce patches for this, although I will be +happy enough with a workaround. + +>><i> It +</I>>><i> doesn't take long to adapt to new commands and the people of the future +</I>>><i> will never need to learn the history behind why such a quirk exists. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And what about DMs that call "halt" ? +</I> +They can, and should be updated to call poweroff instead. Or better to +integrate into dbus and call things that way (which is needed to provide +nice warnings about other users/sessions etc. anyway). + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018030.html">[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018028.html">[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#18032">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#18032">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#18032">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#18032">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |