Before the introduction of systemd in Debian and Ubuntu, /etc/halt.local was not supported at all. Neither sysvinit nor upstart executed that file/script. So I'm mildly suprised, when you say "it always worked".
We decided to not introduce support for this legacy, sysv specific service, which after a bit of research seems to be Redhat (/sbin/halt.local) and SuSE (/etc/init.d/halt.local) specific. Adding /etc/halt.local to the mix would only confuse things. It's much better to create a native service file with systemd, and it's much easier. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532553 Title: /etc/halt.local has become /usr/sbin/halt.local Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Ubuntu 15.10, amd64 systemd-225-1ubuntu9 /etc/halt.local seems to have moved to /usr/sbin/halt.local which IMO is bad for a couple of reasons. 1) This is not where it's supposed to be 2) Locally modified (non-dpkg managed) scripts under /usr is bad I have not been able to find anywhere documenting this as a decided change, so it seems like a bug to me. Please let me know if you need more info from me /Thomas To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1532553/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
