[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#367808: initscripts: machine doesn't power off after 'shutdown -h now'

[Toni Mueller]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-14
Severity: normal


Hello,

after recently installing initscripts, I can no longer power off the
machine using 'shutdown -h now'. The reason is that there is a syntax
error in /etc/init.d/halt which sets an option '-h' for /sbin/halt, but
such an option does not exist. The conditional to clear that flag also
doesn't trigger, so the call to /sbin/halt effectively looks something
like

halt .... -h

So, there are at least two problems in this script at least:

 - calling /sbin/halt with '-h' which is illegal
 - some non-functional code aimed at protecing RAIDs


Best,
--Toni++



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils   2.16                       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs     1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.04.09-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6         2.3.6-7                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base      3.1-5                      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount         2.12r-10                   Tools for mounting and manipulatin

initscripts recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information