Bug 23919

Summary:	/bin/halt doesn't shut down system
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Stig-Ørjan Smelror <smelror>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	systemd-236-9.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2018-11-28 15:32:36 CET

Hi.

I did 2 tests as root in a VM.

1. /bin/halt
  a. Resulted in a system that was halted but would not shut down as I would expect.

2. shutdown -h now
  a. Did exactly that and worked as expected.

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2018-11-28 15:54:57 CET

Your expectation is wrong.


halt does exactly what the command says, halts the system.

halt =! poweroff

if you want it to power off, add the -p flag

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
CC: (none) => tmb