Op ma 08-03-2004, om 01:58 schreef Eric Brower: > Janos Sziliczi wrote: > > This tends to hit the list once every few weeks. > In both sparc and sparc64 the kernel will not power-off systems that are > running with a serial console-- instead they are dropped to OBP (2.2.x > did not act this way). I believe Pete was going to remove this "safety > measure" in sparc a while back but I don't believe it has been done.
I agree with you that this should be removed. IMHO, it's a simple bug. If I type poweroff, I expect the system to do what is described in the man pages. And even if the man pages were updated to reflect the current behaviour, I would opt for an added command-line parameter so that I can poweroff the system if I want to. Koen
