Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2008-01-04 03:13:08 +0100): > Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2008-01-04 02:37:48 +0100): > > Hello, > > > > currently (4.99.48) `shutdown -h' seems not to work: after > > > > The operating system has halted. > > Please press any key to reboot. > > > > is printed, pressing any key does _not_ reboot the system (at least > > not those two i386 systems I tried with, using both GENERIC and > > GENERIC.NOACPI kernels). Furthermore, after powering off the system > > manually and restarting it, RAID parity is dirty. > > I just noticed that the RAID1 set containing the root file system is > always dirty on system startup, no matter whether the system was > previously halted, rebooted or powered down. I see this with 4.99.48 > only, i.e. 4.99.47 worked fine in this regard. FYI: this problem is probably not related to the original problem: while a 4.99.47 kernel doesn't leave the root RAID set dirty, I'm still unable to reboot the system by pressing a key after halting it. I'm not sure when this stopped working. Regards, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~