Bug 194
| Summary: | for 2.1 kernels /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt should do halt -p | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc MERLIN <marc_soft> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1998-11-25 16:26:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This only has an effect on APM enabled kernels and we don't ship APM kernels. If we start to ship them, we might consider it.This only has an effect on APM enabled kernels and we don't ship APM kernels. If we start to ship them, we might consider it. I've just installed RH on a notebook and reading this bug report before probably saved me from spending a lot of time trying to understand why it does not power down on halt. AFAIK, there is nothing wrong with having this -p even when there is no APM support in the kernel, so why not add it? |
--- halt.redhat Fri Oct 9 12:16:20 1998 +++ halt Fri Oct 9 12:16:50 1998 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ case "$0" in *halt) message="The system is halted" - command="halt" + command="halt -p" ;; *reboot) message="Please stand by while rebooting the system..."