Hi, I felt compelled to open a bug for those who might in the near future have the same problem with me. Everytime I was issuing the command reboot or shutdown, the system will kill all the running processes, then it will Deactivate swap, and then it halts the system, without unmounting the filesystems. I asked people on the forum, I asked friends I even went to the gentoo channel on irc, but nobody could help me. All the files, scripts look normal. Then, today, I carefully studied the halt.sh script. And I found out that between commands Deactivating Swap and unmounting filesystems is halt -w &>/dev/null To test, I run halt -w, and I got the result I was getting so far. So I commented this line out and now my system reboots/poweroffs fine. Apparently this command, reboots or halts the system, in contrast to what the manual says. I do not know why this command does not work anymore. Maybe, you do. I have baselayout 1.10.1 emerged Thank you
related to Bug 57766 perhaps ?
Not exactly. The last message that I see is "Umounting filesystems" the previous message is "System is halted". I am forced to press alt+ctrl+del to reboot the system or to press the power button. Because, the filesystems were not umounted, when the system boots, I see the message "Recovering Journal"
There is something that I want to make clear. This problem appeared suddenly. When I first installed Gentoo, a year ago, everything was working fine. But, a couple of months ago, I started having this problem. I remember that once I updated baselayout, but reverting to an old version did not fix it.
does an error show up if you change it to run just 'halt -w' ?
Well halt -w powered off the system !!
umm, so if you remove the ' &>/dev/null' it halts just fine, but if you add it back in, it doesnt ?
Actually, halt -w &>/dev/null is also powering off the system. Which should not, right? I forgot to say that a couple of days ago I updated the baselayout. The installed version is 1.9.4-r6.
so in other words, everything works now ? :)
If you do not mind that you want to reboot the system, but it will power off, then I guess everything is fine. Nevertheless, I have is commented out the above line in the halt.sh file.
ok, i made a lot of dumb comments without doing some research before hand ... 'halt -w' should only write to /var/log/wtmp and that's it ... looking at the man page and the source code of halt.c confirms this if 'halt -w' does anything (like make your system power off), that's a problem with sysvinit's halt and not with the init scripts can you try upgrading to baselayout-1.11.6 ? you neglected to post `emerge info` like you should of so i dont know what kind of gcc/CFLAGS you're using here ...
I reply to the email I got. So I send an email to bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org with subject [Bug 58839] halt -w &>/dev/null reboots my system. With this email appear in this thread?
bugzilla sends e-mails only as a courtesy ... replying to them does nothing
try with sysvinit 2.86-r3
