Bug 17437

Summary:	Halt command in UEFI reboots
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Lip Goh <g.lip>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Barry Jackson <zen25000>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, zen25000
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Lip Goh 2016-01-03 15:51:07 CET

Description of problem:
Issuing "halt" command in grub prompt reboots the computer instead of
shutting down completely. This happens only in UEFI systems and not in
bios-legacy which works as it should. Computer does power down but
restarts again. 

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Comment 1 Lip Goh 2016-01-03 15:53:55 CET

There is a fix in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=aa7bb4607bb799b2790ea008bcfd8d6ca0a6d752

Affects some motherboards and not others.

Comment 2 Florian Hubold 2016-01-04 08:33:01 CET

@Barry: As grub itself has no maintainer listed, would you mind peeking at this ? :)

CC: (none) => doktor5000, zen25000

Comment 3 Barry Jackson 2016-01-04 13:45:31 CET

To be honest I never knew that there was a native grub2 halt command, but I will look at applying the fix in Cauldron.

I don't think that this is worth trying to fix in Mga5 as qa have enough to do.

If I was at a grub2 prompt and wanted to power off I would just use the power button!

@goh lip
Nice to see you still using Mageia :)
Happy New Year!

Barry

Assignee: bugsquad => zen25000

Comment 4 Barry Jackson 2016-01-05 02:12:59 CET

Fixed in Cauldron.
I could not reproduce this issue on my hardware, but testing the new patched version I see no regressions (testing only in UEFI mode).

So closing as it's fixed in Cauldron and unless there are any objections I think this should be a WONTFIX in Mga5.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 5 Lip Goh 2016-01-05 06:24:15 CET

As I said in links, this happens only for UEFI boots only (not in bios-legacy grub boots) and also in some motherboards only.

It needs fixing, but I have no objection if you fix in in Cauldron and not in M5.
(I already fixed mine).

Thanks.