[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#699810: shutdown via power button broken with systemd

[Philipp Kern]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.16-1
Severity: important

acpid ships a native systemd socket definition. This causes acpid only
to be loaded when that socket is accessed. I'm not sure where this is
coming from. My main usecase for acpid is VM shutdown, which works by
pressing the virtual power button. But acpid isn't started when
systemd's active, hence no VM is actually shutting down. acpid should
just run continously, listing to ACPI events, not be started on demand
via socket activation.

systemd seems to be able to handle the shutdown by itself in newer
versions, but those are not in wheezy. Hence for systemd to be usable in
VM environments (that actually rely on virsh shutdown causing the
cooperative shutdown of the VM in question) acpid should please be
fixed.

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern