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

[Christian Schrötter]

Am 02.06.2014 20:04, schrieb Alex Owen:
> 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!
My experience before the upgrade:

  * poweroff = display switched off & all lights dead (except red PWR)
  * halt = all lights on & display still on (last line: System halted)
  * reboot = system poweroff, rainbow screen and again booting...

> Check out the contents of:
>  /etc/default/halt
>
> My guess is that yours says
>  HALT=poweroff
> which on an rpi probably just reboots
HALT=poweroff (which is the default value) is the same as "shutdown -h 
-P now".
HALT=halt should be the same as "shutdown -h -H now".

> If you change to: "HALT=halt" you will probably restore your previous
> behaviour.
Unfortunately that's not true. As mentioned above, "halt" suspends the 
system, but the display and status lights are still on. That's not a 
nice pseudo-poweroff like in good old days.

If you want, I can upload the old packages (1.20130524-1~nokernel2) to 
a public webserver. Then interested parties can test it against their 
own RPi.

-- 
With kind regards,
Christian Schrötter