On 2026-03-22, alain williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 03:44:15PM -0000, CGS wrote: >> On 2026-03-22, alain williams <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 03:05:48PM -0000, CGS wrote: >> > >> >> The text editor is the OP's version (whatever that means) of microemacs >> >> (whatever that is); it seems conceivable that the bug could be in the >> >> editor, >> >> rather than in systemd. >> > >> > No - I said that it handles SIGTERM correctly - I tested it before making >> > this report. >> >> Why would you reboot or poweroff without saving your work first? >> >> Makes no sense to me. > > I have a hardware problem (graphics card occasionally crashes, I shall get a > new one next week). This is what made me aware of the problem. I can ssh into > the machine and poweroff (reboot is not enough, power cycle needed) - which is > what I did. I now send instances of the editor SIGTERM before typing poweroff > - > thus it saves modified buffers.
Right. I think the crashed system isn't performing a canonical poweroff. Try powering off the machine when the system isn't crashed; this will demonstrate whether there's a bug or not.
