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sysvinit package

  1. Bug #483007
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Comment 0 for bug 483007

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Philip Martin (philip-codematters) wrote :

Binary package hint: upstart

I have 9.10 (64bit) installed on a new Lenovo Thinkpad SL500. When I choose shutdown or reboot from the GUI it appears to shut most things down, like the GUI, but doesn't switch off the power or reboot. I get left with a blinking cursor on the console.

If I stop gdm and run halt from the command line I get this:

$ halt
The system is going down for halt NOW!
* Using Makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 0
init: rsyslog-kmsg main process (858) killed by TERM signal
init: hal main process (945) teminated with status 1
init: avahi-daemon main process (943) terminated with status 255
modem-manager: Caught signal 15, shutting down...
init: Disconnected from system bus

and then it just sits there until I press and hold the power button.

If I run "halt -f -p" then it doesn't do the normal shutdown process but it does switch off the power. I've tried putting an explicit "halt -f -p" at the start of /etc/init.d/halt but that doesn't help. /etc/default/halt contains the line "HALT=poweroff".

Reboot has the same problem as shutdown, and again "reboot -f" does reboot but once again doesn't run the shutdown scripts.