Bug 17437 - Halt command in UEFI reboots
Summary: Halt command in UEFI reboots
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Barry Jackson
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Reported: 2016-01-03 15:51 CET by Lip Goh
Modified: 2016-01-05 06:24 CET (History)
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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.

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