Re: Raspbian Jessie is here

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Raspbian Jessie is here
Date	2015-10-02 10:22 +0000
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On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:12:05 +0100, Dom wrote:

> Yes, it's a Debian thing. I've had it on PCs too.
> 
> Apparently it's a bug fix. The "halt" command had been doing a poweroff
> shutdown instead of just a halt. That has been changed.
> 
> Now, on a PC it means the machine stops with "System Halted" displayed,
> but doesn't turn off the power.
>
That's it. Thanks. I've just shut down with poweroff and got back to one 
red LED.
 
> I'm gradually getting into the habit of typing "poweroff" instead of
> "halt" now and in the early days of Jessie (well over a year now) I even
> set up an alias for "halt" that just gave a warning to use poweroff
> instead.
>
Not a bad idea, though as I can't see a reason for using 'halt' instead 
of 'poweroff' since I have to go upstairs and power cycle to restart 
after either of them, I may just set up 'halt' as an alias for 'poweroff'.


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      Re: Raspbian Jessie is here Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-02 10:22 +0000

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