[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#712953: sysvinit: System Restarts Instead of Powering Off

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >>
> >>When I attempt to power off the machine (either logging out of gnome3, or via shutdown now typed in at a terminal)
> >>the system goes through the shutdown sequence (it does seem to pause after telling all processes to terminate and
> >>then reports that some processes are still running). It finally reports it is about to power off.
> >>
> >>But the computer then restarts and reboots.
> >>
> >>If I load up Debian Wheezy and shut that down, the computer powers off properly.
> >I don't think this is a change in sysvinit/initscripts.  There have
> >been no significant changes made since the wheezy release.
> >
> >Could you possibly try booting with the wheezy kernel and then trying
> >to reboot?  This will identify whether it's due to a change in the
> >kernel or something in userspace.
> 
> I am not sure precisely what you want me to do.  I tried the following
> 
> SID (with kernel 3.9.1) installed on /dev/sda1 (an SSD)
> Wheezy (with kernel (3.2.0) on /dev/sdb1 (Sata Hard Drive)

I'd like you to install the wheezy kernel on the sid system, and
then start the system using this kernel (should be selectable
using GRUB), and then see if rebooting works.  This will tell us
if the sid kernel is at fault here.

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