Bug 244665 – sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r10 : reboot reset the pc

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Dominique Michel 2008-10-27 18:25:52 UTC]

When I "su -" inside a term into fvwm-crystal, and run reboot or "shutdown -r now" , I get the message like what the system will be halted now, followed by a complete reset of the pc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login as user into fvwm-crystal
2. fire a term with the right mouse button and login as root with "su -"
3. reboot

Actual Results:  
Full reset of the pc, init is not executed, and when rebooting, every single partition must be checked for error because they don't get unmounted during the reset.

Expected Results:  
That the system will brings down in a secure way before rebooting.

[Comment 1 Dominique Michel 2008-10-27 18:29:34 UTC]

Created attachment 170020 [details]
emerge --info

My emerge --info

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2008-11-16 13:35:17 UTC]

what are you using for your init ?  sysvinit or something else ?

i see you're mixing & matching stable and unstable as you have openrc on a stable system ... does reboot work fine with stable-only packages ?

does reboot work when logging in via the console ?

[Comment 3 Dominique Michel 2008-11-16 16:39:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> what are you using for your init ?  sysvinit or something else ?
> 

The default gentoo init, sysvinit.

> i see you're mixing & matching stable and unstable as you have openrc on a
> stable system ...

It is a few years that this box is runing gentoo. I think that some world upgrade tell me to install openrc.

> does reboot work fine with stable-only packages ?

I guess that the best way to do that is to mask again openrc and update world. I will come later with the result.

> 
> does reboot work when logging in via the console ?
> 
Yes, it work fine as root from the console. It work also fine from fvwm-crystal menu. I use xdm-gdm to auto-launch fvwm-crystal at boot time.