[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#293401: There is no bug here, just a feature request

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

severity 293401 wishlist
retitle 293401 Please support halt without poweroff
tag 293401 wontfix

A BIOS setting for "Always enter S0 upon power cycle" will cause a
non-broken ACPI system to power up *even* after a S5 transition due to a
user request (halt -p), or ACPI event request (power button press).

The machine described in this report is defective.  It is always behaving as
"remain in last state upon power cycle", i.e. it is not entering S0 upon a
power cycle because its last state was S5 (system was powered down).  This
is probably an issue to fix with a BIOS or firmware upgrade and not an O.S.
workaround.  Still, if an O.S. software workaround is desired, the shutdown
scripts are conffiles, and the local admin is welcome to changing them.

It is also not relevant for supporting non-broken UPSes.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh