-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/11/2015 02:22 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > I've recently built a VM against jessie, and just for the heck of > it, I left it with the default systemd-based configuration. > > When I log in to the console as root and try to shut down, I get > the following: > > ======== # shutdown -h -t 0 Broadcast message from root@hostname > (Fri 2015-09-11 14:08:29 EDT): > > The system is going down for power off at Fri 2015-09-11 14:09:29 > EDT! ======== > > I.e., even though I specified a shutdown delay of zero seconds > (meaning to shut down immediately), the shutdown is being delayed > by 60 seconds. > > What I expected instead was a response including the line > > ======== The system is going down for power off NOW! ======== > > and an immediate shutdown (without even enough delay to log root > out via Ctrl-D), which is what I get on my other systems, where > systemd is not the active init system. > > Google has not been helpful in trying to figure out why this might > be happening; there are plenty of hits explaining how to make > systemd inhibit shutdown or add a delay or the like, and a few hits > related to Debian bug 635777 (which seems to be about a delay after > the shutdown has actually begun, not about a delay in initiating > the shutdown), but no real useful hints. > > Grepping recursively and case-insensitively through /etc/systemd > for 'shut' and '60' (separately) produces only two hits, neither of > which seems relevant. > > Any idea why this is happening, and how to get this VM to respect > the semantics of the shutdown command again? >
There is no "-t" option. man shutdown shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...] "If no time argument is specified, "+1" is implied." Regards, Ralph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJV8yJIAAoJECe2FpioHXO6NBYIAJ8frLAbVmpbgYg5Ty8u17+t NYthuajNt2qvF3gwJ0npq7Hw5ZQ9CoDMry4lpeWi5jJ4a5J0eYD7109J/Im5nXC5 A3demPB38tSyjzREJxC86uD+VA5fOIOEP52At3/t0IV7zc2R3kmkwK/SZbCUDL30 wte8JefOiTfRE5BXz0GM9YZaq3iMhSL8gI6jSf9Rf9hT35Aph40tT7FPEY8wXT0W IDB9hD09zyJjSvuQsUU6IMowpfReIQ5i5OVKs3VdLDIpB7eTG8siYxa7bkSZ2gfl 5Ed8GFTr5u4+X74ch8fQyp/GZ/8EvV8l5wewgZQo1AJ7T7ZYTavTHctFygk8TO4= =QTKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
