URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29287>
Summary: halt seems to hang when running on the hurd console Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: pochu Submitted on: Sun 21 Mar 2010 08:13:38 PM GMT Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Reproducibility: None Size (loc): None Planned Release: None Effort: 0.00 Wiki-like text discussion box: _______________________________________________________ Details: When executing halt on the hurd console, the GNU Mach messages that say the kernel has been shut down are hidden by the hurd console, causing the system to look like if it has hanged (since you will still see the console prompt as in h...@root:# halt And you can't type anything as the system has halted. youpi> well, if you are running on the Hurd console, that's the expected behavior actually youpi> since the GNU Mach messages telling you that the kernel is properly shut down are hidden by the Hurd console youpi> in this case, I guess we just need to make the console more daemonish, in that it should be properly shut down, so that you'd see the mach message _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29287> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/