[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#614893: sysvinit: shutdown creates a beep with standard shutdown message

[Andreas Tepe]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-13
Severity: normal


The shutdown command prints a shutdown message to the (any) console. This
message includes the ascii character 0x07 and creates a system beep. I have
at least two computers where I cannot mute this beep. It will also happen
when shutting down the computer using e.g. gnome.

Because this beep is very loud and very inconvenient I consider it a bug and
not a wish. I can barely see any use for it and it does not seem to increase
the security level. Especially on my laptop I had trouble when I wanted to
shut it down in a public environment.

Currently, I have to manually change the letter in the compiled binary with
a hex editor to remove the beep.

Thanks for your help!

Kind Regards,
Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                   2.88dsf-13 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     2.0.41-1   SELinux library for manipulating b
ii  sysv-rc                       2.88dsf-13 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-13 System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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