Bug 57766 – reboot command merely halts the system, but does reboot it

• Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gerald Britton 2004-07-20 12:51:14 UTC]

on my system, the reboot command (issued after su root) merely halts the system, and does not actually reboot it.

System: Via C3 Samuel 2 - 1 Giga Pro processor
Bios: SiS 630E
Kernel: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-R11

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. su to root
2. reboot
3.

Actual Results:  
system halts

Expected Results:  
initated a soft-reboot

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 
2.6.7-gentoo-r8)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2
/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm 
gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg krb4 libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls 
oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang 
spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-07-20 13:26:37 UTC]

what is the last thing you see ?

sounds like it could be a kernel config issue ...

[Comment 2 Gerald Britton 2004-07-20 13:47:14 UTC]

The last thing I see is the message:

Rebooting system

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-31 01:42:32 UTC]

sounds like a kernel problem

if the last thing you see is 'Rebooting system', then the Gentoo init scripts have finished executing

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-12-22 16:06:18 UTC]

Please test with a newer kernel (e.g. 2.6.10-rc3)

[Comment 5 Gerald Britton 2005-01-12 06:49:35 UTC]

Tested with gentoo-2.6.10-r4.  Same result as before.

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 03:39:30 UTC]

Does this patch help?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110684671211520&w=2

[Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 07:40:29 UTC]

Please reopen when you reply to comment #6
It would also be worthwhile if you could test 2.6.11-rc3

[Comment 8 Gerald Britton 2005-03-24 11:35:51 UTC]

Problem persists with 2.6.11-gentoo-r4

[Comment 9 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-04-01 03:05:56 UTC]

Please file this upstream at http://bugzilla.kernel.org and post the URL back here- thanks.

[Comment 10 Gerald Britton 2005-04-05 12:49:52 UTC]

matching Kernel bug:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2334

[Comment 11 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2008-12-05 15:44:12 UTC]

upstream bug closed because of inactivity