[Raspbian-devel] [raspberrypi-bootloader-nokernel] shutdown requested - reboot executed (1.20140107-1~nokernel1)

[Alex Owen]

This is just a hunch... but here goes:

Has the RPi ever really been able to power-off?
I thought that it was either running or halted and never had the
option of powering off!

If that is the case then the 3 virtual states:

Power Down
Halt
Reboot

map to only 2 actions:

Halt
Reboot

Presumably the mapping was:

Power Down -> Halt
Halt -> Halt
Reboot ->Reboot

and some package upgrade as remapped to:

Power Down -> Reboot
Halt -> Halt
Reboot -> Reboot

Check out the contents of:
 /etc/default/halt

My guess is that yours says
 HALT=poweroff
which on an rpi probably just reboots

If you change to: "HALT=halt" you will probably restore your previous behaviour.


Hope that helps
Alex Owen

On 2 June 2014 14:10, Christian Schrötter <rpi at lists.kb19.at> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm using Raspbian (without Raspberry Pi Foundation repository) with custom
> 3.2.x Linux Kernels on multiple devices since 2012.
>
> Since the upgrade for package "raspberrypi-bootloader-nokernel" at the end
> of April, I can't shutdown anymore. It results always in a reboot. Tested on
> three RPi's.
>
>> halt
>>>
>>> Device reboots.
>
>
>> shutdown -h now
>>>
>>> Device reboots.
>
>
>> shutdown -h -P now
>>>
>>> Device reboots.
>
>
>> shutdown -h -H now
>>>
>>> Halt but no power-off.
>
>
> I thought it's my kernel, but somehow the upgraded firmware/bootloader is
> the source of my problem. I've installed version 1.20130524-1~nokernel2 from
> 2013 and everything works as expected.
>
> Any ideas what's wrong with the current firmware? Or any hints for my kernel
> builds?
>
> --
> With kind regards,
> Christian Schrötter
>
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