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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On 5 January 2017 at 09:09, Bob McGowan <ramjr0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as
> > > the subject, and found several references to emails with similar
> > > problems. However, no exact solution was proposed.
> > >
> > > And this actually only happens on one of the two systems I have Debian
> > > installed on.
> > >
> > > I'm using testing (stretch).
> > >
> > > When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from
> > > systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown".
> > >
> >
>
> I get that when I use 'sudo halt'
>
> When I use 'sudo halt -p' it powers off.
"halt" is "shutdown" -- at least from where you are shooting. From halt's
man page:
If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel
0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown
will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info
see the shutdown(8) manpage.
> So I would suggest you look at the underlying command on the button of the
> computer which do not power off and change the command.
>
> Look at 'man shutdown' for the options when you use 'shutdown' in stead
> of 'halt'.
I agree, it should be in the options. That said, one of the systems I take
care of *sometimes* ends up in this state (i.e. "Reached target ..."), but
most of the time actually powers off.
Since it's a desktop I told the users that it's safe to power off the thing
when in this state and filed it under "unsolved hardware/init system quirks".
regards
- -- tomás
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