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

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: reassign -1 release-notes

Hi Tom,

On 22 June 2015 at 12:08, Tom LAREDO <tom.laredo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, halt and poweroff are not the same thing, although sysvinit did
not respect this distinction. Already filed as #760923 and tagged
wontfix:

>> A good reason why this will not be changed by us is that it is desirable
>> to maintain compatibility with other Linux distributions.


> 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

This doesn't look good, though, as halt is almost never what you want.
Reassigning to the release notes.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler