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

Sat Aug 11 00:12:41 CEST 2012

On 08/10/2012 03:27 PM, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+>
+>> 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.
+>
+> So fix it, no change to systemctl is needed AFAICT, just replace the 
+> symlink with a tool that does "the right thing", probably running 
+> "poweroff" passing all arguments verbatim. Don't forget to fix the 
+> manpage as well.
+>
+>
+>     Christiaan
+
+Another possible fix would be to create an alias, maybe add it to 
+.bashrc.  Personally I have always just preferred to use the good old 
+'init 0' and 'init 6' commands.  No matter what version of whatever 
+distro you may be using they always do the same thing.
+
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