[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#743555: initscripts: command "halt" unintended changed behaviour

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-51
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I wondered, why the behaviour of the command halt might have changed.
When I entered the command halt as root, my systems went down and then switched power off.
Now it changed that way, that it is going down, but does not switch power off. There is a prompt "System halted".

According to the manual halt -p does poweroff. This is working here, too.
So far, so well halt is working as the manual says. 

But when I correct understand, then /etc/default/halt says, the command halt shall do a poweroff. And when I understand the manual correctly, the single command halt is calling the command "shutdown -h". If I am correct, then the command halt is buggy.

If I am not correct, please enlighten me, and explain me, why the single command halt does no more poweroff, as it did before.

Does this maybe be related to the change from sysinit to systemd?

Please apologize, if this package is the wrong one, I reported the bug to.

Thanks for your help! 

Best regards

Hans

 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.21-1.1
ii  debianutils     4.4
ii  libc6           2.18-4
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian12
ii  mount           2.20.1-5.6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-51
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-51

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.9-3
ii  psmisc     22.21-2

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/rcS changed:
TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
VERBOSE=yes


-- no debconf information