[systemd-devel] 'systemctl poweroff' no longer shuts down system -- instead, reboots ?

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 02:21:45AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 13.11.14 11:24, grantksupport at operamail.com (grantksupport at operamail.com) wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014, at 08:09 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On the upstream ML we usually discuss only more recent problems, which
> > > are exposed upstream. Hence, please contact the Suse folks for more
> > > help on the issue, or check if a current systemd version fails.
> > 
> > Already done, and just fyi -- appears now to be fixed:
> > 
> > @ https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903560#c48
> > 
> > rpm -q --changelog systemd
> > 	* Thu Nov 13 2014 werner at suse.de
> > 	- Change patch 0001-add-hdflush-for-reboot-or-hddown-for-poweroff.patch
> > 	  to skip hdflush as well as hddown but only use halt as fallback
> > 	  for poweroff as well as synch in systemctl before any reboot command
> > 	  (compare with commit 4a3ad39957399c4a30fc472a804e72907ecaa4f9)
> > 
> > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/systemd/0001-add-hdflush-for-reboot-or-hddown-for-poweroff.patch?expand=1
> > 
> > shutdown now shuts down correctly.
> 
> I cannot make any sense out of that commit I must say. I really wish
> suse would discuss this with us upstream, if there's a bug to fix
> upstream...
It seems that they add reboot(RB_HALT_SYSTEM) as a fallback to reboot(RB_POWER_OFF).
I'd consider this a workaround for a bug in firmware or hardware.
I seems like it shouldn't hurt, so maybe let's take this part?

The other thing is adding an additional sync. I think you added one
in the meanwhile.

Zbyszek