[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4379] fix shutting down

Thu May 3 11:45:38 CEST 2012

Colin Guthrie skrev 3.5.2012 12:33:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 03/05/12 09:05 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On 3 May 2012 09:53, Guillaume Rousse<guillomovitch at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>>> please use system("/usr/bin/chvt", "1"), or system(qw(/usr/bin/chvt 1))
+>>>> instead in order to not fork useless shells.
+>>>
+>>> and kill is a perl builtin perl too:
+>>> kill SIGRTMAX-10, 1
+>>
+>> needs 'use POSIX;' though for symbolic values
+>
+> Actually none of the above. Please do it in the systemd unit itself with
+> ExecStartPre as this actually fixes the issues, whereas the internal
+> approach does not (at least in my tests) :)
+>
+
+It seemed to work in vbox, but I'll retest the isos currently building
+
+> I can help write this unit if you like?
+>
+
+Feel free to do so.
+
+> In actual fact, this shut down script could be something that the
+> mgalive dracut module drops into /run/systemd/systemd. This would
+> prevent any poking at the installed file system and maybe allows for
+> easier hacking - i.e. no need to actually edit the squashfs filesystem
+> to tweak certain things.
+>
+
+What/how should this look like ?
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+