Just for the sake of completeness, I should also mention that "reboot -f" does work for me to reboot the system, but then dumps me into single-user mode with:
start (hd1,0)/hurd/ext2fs.static: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs.static[device:hd
1s1] exec init proc auth/libexec/runsystem: line 112: /libexec/rc: Permission de
nied
It's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254147
I'll file bug against sysvinit to not install "halt" and "reboot" commands on hurd-i386. They are provided by the hurd package.
Regards, ogi

