Bug#760923: halt no longer powers off the machine

2015-05-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
Control: tag 760923 upstream wontfix On May 09, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote: I think one could have made a good argument before the release of Jessie to revert to the (broken) previous default (and perhaps print a message saying that this will change in Stretch), but changing it

Bug#760923: halt no longer powers off the machine

2015-05-09 Thread Christian Seiler
- changing finger memory is difficult, so I keep entering 'halt' instead of 'poweroff' occasionally I had the same problem, so I added the following to my /root/.bashrc on Jessie so I can retrain my finger memory: #

Bug#760923: halt no longer powers off the machine

2015-05-08 Thread Jan Niehusmann
Hi, just my opinion, of course, but please let me add: - changing finger memory is difficult, so I keep entering 'halt' instead of 'poweroff' occasionally - if one doesn't notice the error, this will waste electricity - if it happens on a notebook just before putting it into a bag, one

Bug#760923: halt no longer powers off the machine

2015-01-19 Thread Lars Doelle
Michael Biebl wrote: halt is not supposed to poweroff the machine, that sysvinit's halt did that is a bug that was never fixed. Excuse me, when I disagree. It is regulated as follows in initscripts: /etc/defaults/halt: HALT=poweroff Thus there is no bug in sysvinit's halt, but