Bug#777348: systemd-sysv: 'shutdown -rf now' doesn't work

Török Edwin edwin at etorok.net
Sat Feb 7 15:52:24 GMT 2015


Package: systemd-sysv
Version: 215-10
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

  Upgrade a test VM from Debian wheezy to jessie

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

 'shutdown -rf now' command doesn't work anymore.

* What was the outcome of this action?

root at debianwheezy:~# shutdown -rf now
Code should not be reached 'Unhandled option' at ../src/systemctl/systemctl.c:6316, function shutdown_parse_argv(). Aborting.
Aborted

* What outcome did you expect instead?
	
Either:
 * rebooting the system like it used to for wheezy
 * an error message that tells me that the '-f' flag is no (longer) supported

I did not expect to see an internal error in shutdown when called with wrong arguments.

FWIW if I use a truly unknown option I get a better error message:
# shutdown -z
shutdown: invalid option -- 'z'


* Workaround: use 'shutdown -r now' instead

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-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
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd-sysv depends on:
ii  systemd  215-10

systemd-sysv recommends no packages.

systemd-sysv suggests no packages.

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