On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jose Jorge <[email protected]> wrote:
Le 09/08/2012 20:10, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines
anymore on shutdown.
The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered.
I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs.
Does someone else see that?
Yes, and some other distros do the same (at least Slitaz). Before Mageia 2,
there was no interest in having both halt and poweroff doing the same.
Now, we can do "poweroff" to cut the power after stopping the kernel, or
"halt" to keep the power on.
As I said earlier, if you are looking for these system shutdown commands,
use:
systemctl reboot
systemctl halt
systemctl poweroff
directly. The "halt, "reboot", and "poweroff" commands are only there for
backwards compatibility.
How many people expect their machine to power off when they type halt?
How many people will want their machine to not halt and not poweroff?
Said in another way:
- How many people will this change cause problem to?
- How many people will benefit from it?
I would expect the ratio to be about at least 99.9/0.1 which is why I hate it.
This change seem to be done without any consideration for users.
So fix it, no change to systemctl is needed AFAICT, just replace the
symlink with a tool that does "the right thing", probably running
"poweroff" passing all arguments verbatim. Don't forget to fix the
manpage as well.
Christiaan
