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upstart package

  1. Bug #59134
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 59134

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Roshan Shariff (roshan.shariff) wrote : Re: upstart fails to power off my system

I can confirm this bug.

/sbin/halt, which is supposed to be equivalent to "shutdown -h now", doesn't work with upstart. Running it causes the system to shutdown normally, and print a kernel message saying "will now halt", but it doesn't actually power off. Running "shutdown -h now" works fine, as does the "Shut Down" option in the gnome panel or GDM.

My system has upstart 0.2.1-7 and associated packages, and / is on NFS.