Bug#767449: systemctl forces reboot with every shutdown

[Jim McCloskey]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Thanks very much for all of your work. The core of my report is this:
following an upgrade to testing on October 30th 2014, I am unable to
shut down my laptop. Almost every way of shutting down is followed by
a forced reboot (which of course I do not want).

   * What led up to the situation?

Upgrading to testing on Thursday October 30th 2014. This included an
upgrade to libsystemd0, libpam-systemd, systemd, systemd-sysv,
libsystemd-daemon0, libsystemd-id128-0, libsystemd-journal0,
libsystemd-login0.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

1. In Gnome 3: Tried to shutdown using the power-down icon in the
dropdown menu of the status bar. The system shut down and rebooted.

2. In Gnome 3: pressed and held the power button (configured in
gnome-tweak-tool to power down). The system shut down and immediately
rebooted.

3. From the command-line as root, typed `shutdown -h now'. The system
shut down and immediately rebooted.

4. From the command-line as root, typed `systemctl poweroff'. The
system shut down and immediately rebooted.

5. From the command-line as root, typed `poweroff -p'. The 
system shut down and immediately rebooted. (Similarly just `poweroff'.)

6. From the command-line as root, typed `halt -p', The
system shutdown and immediately rebooted.

7. From the command-line as root, typed `poweroff -f'. The system shut
down and there was no reboot. Presumably because using this option
entails that the init system is not contacted.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

An automatic (and unwanted) reboot following shutdown in every
circumstance except when `poweroff -f' was issued as root from the
command line. This is the only way I've found so far to actually shut
the laptop down.  Since shutdown and poweroff are symbolic links to
systemctl, presumably the problem ultimately lies there.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

That the system would shut down without automatically and instantly
rebooting.  That was the behavior before the upgrade.

Thanks for any advice or help. Please let me know how I might help,

Jim

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-53.4
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.1-5
ii  libc6           2.19-12
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-2
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-3
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-5+b1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev            215-5+b1
ii  util-linux      2.25.1-5

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.8-2
ii  libpam-systemd  215-5+b1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- no debconf information