[BusyBox] Poweroff on shutdown is just rebooting

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Mon Jun 26 17:00:38 UTC 2000


Package: busybox
Version: 0.45
Severity: normal


On Mon Jun 26, 2000 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Tony Sciortino wrote:
> I can not seem to get poweroff to "poweroff the box"
> It reboots it. I know the bios supports this, I have
> done it with the same kernel and sysvinit in a full system.
> Same kernel with busybox and I just get a reboot.
> Anyone have ideas? Or could it be something with init ?

I have seen this behavior as well.  I suspect that somehow halt_signal() in
busybox/init.c is doing something wrong when it calls
init_reboot(RB_POWER_OFF); We need to check out the exact bahavior of
'poweroff' from sysvinit to exactly duplicate its behavior.

I am submitting this as a bug,

 -Erik

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