On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote: > The raspberry pi does not have a mechansism for the software to > power off the hardware. Thus, all of "poweroff", "halt", > "shutdown -h" and "shutdown -p" will end up at the "press any > key to reboot" message. > > Yes, it sucks. But it is a side effect of the "power supply" in > use.
The problem is more due to voluntary reboot after reaching the reboot prompt. Because of this behavior, if I am running pi headless, I can never be sure when to pull the plug. Due to this my FS crashed many times till now requiring reinstalling image. (Having a separate thread on why fsck didn't help...) On Raspbian I never faced this problem. Probably Raspbian also drops to reboot prompt (do not recollect now), but it does not reboot, making it safe to wait for a minute or two and pull the plug. Mayuresh.
