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

Fri Aug 10 21:11:24 CEST 2012

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jose Jorge <lists.jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
+> Le 09/08/2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>
+>> Hi
+>>
+>> I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines
+>> anymore on shutdown.
+>> The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered.
+>> I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs.
+>>
+>> Does someone else see that?
+>
+> Yes, and some other distros do the same (at least Slitaz). Before Mageia 2,
+> there was no interest in having both halt and poweroff doing the same.
+>
+> Now, we can do "poweroff" to cut the power after stopping the kernel, or
+> "halt" to keep  the power on.
+
+How many people expect their machine to power off when they type halt?
+How many people will want their machine to not halt and not poweroff?
+
+Said in another way:
+- How many people will this change cause problem to?
+- How many people will benefit from it?
+
+I would expect the ratio to be about at least 99.9/0.1 which is why I hate it.
+
+This change seem to be done without any consideration for users.
+