On Monday, December 01, 2014 7:34:35 PM meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> [14-12-01 19:16]:
> > meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > another >sigh< from an Arietta adventure...
> > >
> > > I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25
> > > (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta).
> > >
> > > For this I used Robert Nelsons Kernel for armv5tel platforms,
> > > which boots fine (using at91bootstrap, no U-Boot). 
> > >
> > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now")
> > > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down.
> > >
> > > The hardware is not to blame: Using the original Debian rootfs
> > > and the kernel 3.16.1 (Robert Nelsons kernel is 3.17.3.) the
> > > powerdown works fine.
> > >
> > > Firstly I blamed the kernel...but when using the 3.16.1 kernel
> > > and the Gentoo rootfs the problem remains.
> > >
> > > Then I copied the Gentoo shutdown to the Debian rootfs, boot that
> > > and tries to shutdown the Debian Linux with it.
> > > shutdown cries "no /dev/initctl" adn shutdowns the system only for
> > > rebooting it.
> > >
> > > Ok...seems to be the shutdown executable.
> > >
> > > I copied the Debian shutdown to Gentoo and tries that:
> > > The systems reboots.
> > >
> > > Slowly but surely I begin to think, that I dont understand anything at 
all of
> > > It would be relly good news, 
> > > that...
> > >
> > > "man shutdown" on the Debian image informs me, that the manpages
> > > were not installed (embedded system...). Shutdown --version gives
> > > a short help of the usual options...but nothing more.
> > >
> > > What is the difference here? 
> > > Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions
> > > to the kernel and the kernel is the main actor in bringing the system
> > > down?
> > >
> > > Is there any shutdown guru ;) out there, who is able to shed some
> > > light into this problem ? :)
> > >
> > > Thank you very much in advance for any torch send into my direction!
> > > Best regards,
> > > Meino
> > >
> > 
> > Just shooting in the dark here, try -h and -H but not at the same time? 
> > Maybe having both is clashing in some weird way???
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-) 
> > 
> 
> Hi Dale,
> 
> The "Trouble shooting FAQ"*)  by acmesystems explicitely say "shutdown -h
> -H now" (and it works with the Debian rootfs)...but I will try "the
> other shutdowns" and will see, what happens,
> 
> Best regards,
> Meino
> 
> 
> 
> *) http://www.acmesystems.it/qa
> 

Also AFAICT the -H option just set an env variable INIT_HALT and it looks like 
OpenRC ignores it so look at your init scripts on Debian and see what it does 
when it is set.

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