reboot/poweroff/halt commands not working

[wimpunk]

Dallas Clement wrote:
> I'm using 1.6.1 and none of these commands seem to work all by
> themselves.  If I provide the -f option, they all work just fine.  I'm
> not sure if this is a regression problem or it has always been this way.
> 
> I thought things were working properly in previous versions.  I'm pretty
> sure I did not have to supply the -f option.

I have the same problem with 1.5.* and 1.4.2.  It fails on ARM but it
works on i386.

wimpunk.