Bug#789604: systemd-sysv: "halt" behaviour changed without notice

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forcemerge 760923 -1

Am 22.06.2015 um 17:08 schrieb Tom LAREDO:
> Package: systemd-sysv
> Version: 215-17+deb8u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The "halt" command behaviour has changed between Debian Wheezy and Debian
> Jessie. On Wheezy (running sysvinit), when you run "halt", it stops OS and then disconnects
> power. On Jessie (running systemd), it just stops OS and then hangs.
> If you're on a virtual machine, you're able to see messages like: "Failed
> to finalize DM device, ignoring" and "System halted" but the Virtual Machine just hangs with OS off and VM still running.
> 
> I took a look to the release notes and didn't notice anything about this
> behaviour change.
> The documentation seems not to make difference between using halt,
> poweroff or shutdown -h now: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch08s01.html.en
> 
> Please let me know if I miss something.

Duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760923

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