@Andy Whitcroft, I do not know what exactly do you mean by "fix a long broken upstream behaviour", as all the other distroes i use (Mandriva, Gentoo, SuSe, Fedora) do poweroff after issuing an /sbin/halt command...
Actually Oneiric doesn't honour the user preferences poweroff flag (set in the /etc/default/halt and used by /etc/init.d/halt) at all, and this behaviour is a kinda annoying. Besides if the halt/poweroff behaviour in Oneiric has been "fixed", there should be a fix for KDM/KDE (probably other desktop environments as well) too, 'cause right now their "Shutdown" command does halt without poweroff.... There is something that really needs fixing and i do not think this bug should be closed... actually bug #809628 is a duplicate... ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/859075 Title: Oneiric does not shutdown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/859075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs