Debian bug report logs - #1419 reboot too eager to reboot Package: sysvinit ; Reported by: Richard Kettlewell ; 40 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From elmail.co.uk!richard Thu Sep 21 04:30:27 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0svjpi-0005zZC; Thu, 21 Sep 95 04:30 PDT Received: from muskogee.elmail.co.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA05301 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:30:00 -0700 Received: by muskogee.elmail.co.uk id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:29 BST Message-Id: <8Mo6T23B2@sfere.elmail.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 20:38:42 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Kettlewell To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: reboot too eager to reboot Package: sysvinit Version: 2.56-5 Rebooting my work machine after three weeks uptime I did what I almost invariably do at home and typed `reboot'. At home this calls shutdown, and tidies everything up nicely. (I have the same version of sysvinit both at home and at work.) At work, however, the effect was to briefly print a message saying something to the effect of ``cannot determine runlevel, doing a hard reboot''. It then rebooted immediately, in particular without umounting anything. The reboot man page notes that shutdown will be called if the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6; I don't know what condition it is that causes reboot to be unable to determine the runlevel but it seems to be to be highly unreasonable to just assume that it's OK to reboot if it can't work out whether or not it is. More sensible semantics in this situation would be to only carry out the reboot if the -f flag is present. -- Richard Kettlewell Work+home: Home only: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Richard Kettlewell : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1419 ; Package sysvinit . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov