On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: >> >> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... >> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory > > See bug 651990. https://bugs.gentoo.org/651990 > > Either upgrade to sysvinit-2.89-r1, or run the following command > before rebooting or changing runlevels. > > ln -s /dev/initctl /run/initctl
2.89?! A new version after so many years! Looking at the upstream changelog: Added Robert Millan's Debian patch to use /run/initctl as the named pipe for communicating. This works around a limitation on the kFreeBSD branch which prevents us from using /dev/initctl for pipes.
