[Bug 1174272] Re: 'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode

[Dimitri Pappas]

Usage: shutdown [OPTION]... TIME [MESSAGE]
Bring the system down.

Usage: reboot [OPTION]...
Reboot the system.

Just out of curiousity. Why no 'time' for reboot? These commands are
similar in purpose, so one would expect that level of consistency
between them

I'll also be happy go back on my previous rant which may otherwise have
come across as rude, if it can be explained why 'shutdown now' does not
halt the system by default. It would seem to me that 'power-off' is a
far more intuitive default action to be associated with 'shutdown TIME'
than merely reverting to single-user mode? Why doesn't single-user mode
require an argument the way halt would anyway?

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Title:
  'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  A forum thread has been opened first, describing the problem. For
  reference, that forum thread can be found here:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2139160&p=12624806

  Problem is described below:

  When the command "reboot now" is issued:

  root at server:~# reboot now
  Broadcast message from root at server
  (/dev/pts/0) at 00:00 ...
  The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!

  A few moments later.. SSHd is killed, but the box responds to pings
  (Inaccessible remotely unless a hard-reset is performed)

  * Asking all remaining processes to terminate...
  * Killing all remaining processes... [fail]
  * Will now switch to single-user mode
  Give root password for maintenance
  (or type Control-D to continue):

  Just "reboot", and it works fine
  root at server:~# reboot
  Broadcast message from root at server
  (/dev/pts/0) at 00:00 ...
  The system is going down for reboot NOW!

  Some distro's require a time / 'now' as an argument, and thus I became
  accustomed to performing my reboots in this way. Now it seems to be a
  potential trap that causes the machine not to reboot, which is
  especially painful if we're talking about a headless/hosted dedicated
  server. Even if ubuntu doesn't like 'reboot now' syntax, I still can't
  understand why "reboot now" should bring the box to console
  maintenance mode anyway - perhaps it should rather return an error, or
  syntax help

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: upstart 1.8-0ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 3.9.0-030900rc8-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Apr 29 13:22:02 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-11 (870 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.9.0-030900rc8-generic root=UUID=cde38363-cc5e-4b66-ba3d-f64dd0ed4987 ro quiet
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (3 days ago)
  UpstartBugCategory: System

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