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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 10.11.14 16:22, grantksupport at operamail.com (grantksupport at operamail.com) wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 04:07 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Thu, 30.10.14 12:30, grantksupport at operamail.com (grantksupport at operamail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > exec of
> > > 
> > >   systemctl poweroff
> > > 
> > > causes, as reported, a reboot/restart
> > > 
> > > but, exec of
> > > 
> > >   systemctl --force poweroff
> > > 
> > > otoh, does shut down the machine, though not gracefully
> > 
> > This got recently fixed in git. Please verify.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  In #systemd, I'd been told that this was not relevant to my specific issue, and that the problem was solely with my distro.
> 
> So, here's where I've been discussing it:
> 
> Bug 903560 - opensuse 13.1 ( + Kernel:Stable 3.17.2 + systemd 210) exec of `shutdown` restarts machine instead 
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903560#c40
> 
> Is the fixed-in-git you are referencing relevant to the issue with systemd discussed at opensuse?

Oh yeah, 210 is too old. 

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.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat