shutdown bug, not present in previous versions

[Pedreter]

Hi,

Sysvinit (2.96-7) includes a shutdown version (/sbin/shutdown) that contains a bug not present in previous versions of shutdown

It affects to QEMU VMs, like Proxmox, for example, that cannot be shutdown from console.

Basically, to shutdown QEMU-Guest-Agent issues the command

/sbin/shutdown -h -P +0

but /sbin/shutdown refuses to work when -h and -P are present at the same time, although its help says explicitly that "-P can only be used with -h flag".

Older versions of shutdown work correctly!! and /sbin/shutdown -h -P +0 shutdown the machine as expected.

Regards,

Pedreter.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Ubuntu does not use shutdown from sysvinit. If this is a bug in sysvinit's implementation of shutdown, then it is invalid in Ubuntu. Are you in fact using this shutdown, or are you using the one from systemd?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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