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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: easy one, reboot reboots, but halt and poweroff don't seem to do anything
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:18:06 -0000

--- In  "Charles" <> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi --
> 
> --- In  "j.chitte" <j.chitte@> wrote:
> >
> > > 
> > > what's going on here?
> > >
> > 
> > Hi , having similar problems on 7250 with busybox 1.17
> > 
> > here reboot is also a nop. I have to power cycle manually.
> > 
> > I have another image with recent bb (probably 1.16) that works correctly. 
> > Have not had time to dig into it.
> > 
> > :?
> >
> 
> Look into the config of busybox.  In the ./init directory, the reboot, halt 
> and poweroff routines all have code like this (from bb 1.00-rc2):
> 
> #ifndef CONFIG_INIT
> #ifndef RB_HALT_SYSTEM
> #define RB_HALT_SYSTEM          0xcdef0123
> #endif
>         return(bb_shutdown_system(RB_HALT_SYSTEM));
> #else
>         return kill_init(SIGUSR1);
> #endif
> 
> So looks like if bb is configured as an init replacement, these calls work on 
> init, otherwise they work as expected.  
> 
> May explain why your two binaries work differently, but doesn't explain why 
> your TS-7200 works differently than the TS-7500 Kris mentions in another post.
> 
> regards, ........ Charlie
>

hi,

I rebooted the image that worked and found I had used sysvinit not BB there so 
that explains it .

I'll have to look into what is wrong with the bb installation and where 
/sbin/init comes from.

Or maybe just add sysvinit and save myself a day's work ;)

Thanks for the pointer.




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