Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

[Dale]

meino.cramer@×××.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

:-)  :-)