Bug#731686: gdm3: poweroff/reboot seems to be a noop

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Steven,

On 08.12.2013 13:08, Steven Post wrote:
> When trying to reboot from inside the gdm3 login screen, nothing appears to
> happen. After several tries I can still login to Gnome and poweroff/reboot from
> there.
This is another version of Bug #726763, this time with poweroff/reboot 
instead of suspend/hibernate, but still the same cause: Gnome 3.8 needs 
systemd as PID 1 for this to work.

So you either have to use the 'init=/bin/systemd' boot parameter or 
install systemd-sysv.

Best regards,
Andreas