[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown

Thu Aug 9 21:51:06 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:33 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> But even since I know it has changed, 10 years habits had me typing
+>>> halt and then saying some bad words as it meant I would not be able to
+>>> power it on again for a few days.
+>>
+>> OK, how about a compromise, "urpmi restore-broken-halt-command" which
+>> just contains a single file /etc/profile.d/99broken-halt-command.sh
+>> which contains:
+>>
+>> alias halt=poweroff
+>>
+> 
+> Well my own machine already has halt='halt -p' since the day I lost it
+> like that :)
+> What annoys me is that I don't see the point of changing the default
+> behavior of a (quite important) command while the new default is
+> something people would only want to use in very rare cases and will
+> cause problems to most of them.
+
+Well, for me personally, I always prefer to fix things that are broken
+and not use history as an excuse for keeping broken behaviour. It
+doesn't take long to adapt to new commands and the people of the future
+will never need to learn the history behind why such a quirk exists.
+
+Anyway, I very much do not want to patch systemd to change upstream
+behaviour here. If we have to work around it then someone who cares
+enough can create the package as I suggested above, or take the cause to
+upstream systemd and get them to change the behaviour.
+
+Col
+
+
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