On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:08:49 -0300 Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong when I try to reboot > > or shutdown, I get this message: > > > > "WARNING: Could not determine runlevel - doing a soft reboot" > > > > I am missing something? or how it is that sysvinit determines the > > runlevel in which is currently?. > > > > > This message is displayed by the "halt" command when it cannot find > init's runlevel, which is stored in a file. Typically this happens if > halt cannot read from /var/run/utmp. You might want to check if the > file exists and is readable by the user trying to halt the system. That explain why it can't determine the runlevel. The file exists, but it is a limitation of the libc, in our case (Dragora -devel), we are using Musl. See https://wiki.musl-libc.org/faq.html#Q:-Why-is-the-utmp/wtmp-functionality-only-implemented-as-stubs? > Alternatively, you can try using the "shutdown" command in place of > "halt". Running "shutdown -P -h now" is approximately the equivalent > of using "halt". The command used was 'reboot'. > If those steps don't work, please let us know which version of init > you are running and any other error messages which are displayed. > It is sysvinit-2.89.
