Bug#771554: systemd-sysv: system won't poweroff always reboots via kexec

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:08:35 +0100
intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Stephen Hemminger wrote (30 Nov 2014 17:09:27 GMT) :
> > When I attempt to shutoff my desktop system either via Gnome, poweroff,
> > shutdown or by directly invoking systemctl, the normal shutdown starts
> > but then the script invokes kexec on the new kernel.
> 
> Do you have kexec-tools installed? If yes, which version?
> 
> Cheers!

kexec-tools was installed and was version 1:2.0.5
Yesterday when I ran update it updated to 1:2.0.7-5 which appears
to solve the problem.