Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with commands "reboot" and "shutdown"

[Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>]

Steve,

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:42:40 +0000 you wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 18:58:53 +0100
> ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > /bin and /sbin should be symlinks to /usr/bin if you switched to
> > profile 23.0:
> > 
> 
> But not if they switched to 23.0/split-usr like me. I get:
> ...
> ls -l /sbin/reboot
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 30  2024 /sbin/reboot -> halt

Same on my laptop:

   $ eselect profile show
   Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink:
     default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop
   $ ls -l /sbin/reboot
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 526 2024-11-08 10:14 /sbin/reboot
   $

Obviously the problem is somewhere else.  Meanwhile I found that running
"shutdown" directly from a shell  works without  the additional symbolic
links in directory "/usr/bin/".  But selecting "shutdown" or "reboot" in
Xfce's "Action Button"  popup menu fails  when these  symbolic links are
missing.

And I found that in syslog the message

   (3) reboo[14713]: Failed to execute /usr/bin/reboot: No such file or directory

is always immediately preceded (with exactly the same time stamp) by the
message

   (5) kernel: elogind-daemon[1877]: System is rebooting.

But the last update of "sys-auth/elogind" to version 252.9-r2 was end of
September and thus _before_ my last successful reboot  via Xfce's action
buttons and without the symbolic links.  So "elogind" seems out.

As is kernel 6.6.58-r1, because booting an older kernel (6.6.52) without
the symbolic links didn't work either.

So currently I'm  a bit out of ideas,  apart from leaving these symbolic
links in "usr/bin/" :-(

Sincerely,
  Rainer