From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) When halting the system, the system prints our the message: "The System is halted" and them performs some other actions (such as stopping md devices) and then the system prints "System halted". Some users, seeing the "The system is halted" powerdown without waiting for the the remaining actions and the second "System halted" mesage to be printed; resulting in undesirable effects. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./sbin/halt 2.notice the "The system is halted" message 3.notice that the system does not halt but instead does other things Actual Results: The system is halted stopping md devices System halted Expected Results: There should be only one halt message. Apply this patch to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt: *** halt 2001/02/28 22:04:51 1.1 --- halt 2001/02/28 22:05:15 *************** *** 27,33 **** # See how we were called. case "$0" in *halt) ! message="The system is halted" command="halt" ;; *reboot) --- 27,33 ---- # See how we were called. case "$0" in *halt) ! message="The system is about to be halted" command="halt" ;; *reboot) This fake "System halted" as resulted in loss of data because the user powered down before the md devices were stopped. While it is the fault of our md devices ... had the system not printed a misleading message, the user would not have performed a pre-mature powerdown.
Changed to 'Halting system...' in initscripts-5.70-1 or so.