How to reboot from start scripts?

[Josef Wolf]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:42:21PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:37:29AM -0500, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
> > Another option (to reboot) is to Ctl-Alt-Backspace to shut down XWindows.
> > Than should bring up a logon screen where you can select reboot.
> 
> I just tried and noticed that ctrl-alt-backspace is even worse:
> 
> I forced /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh to notice a problem on the root partition
> and throw me into a root shell to fix that problem.  From that shell,
> I pressed C-A-D.  See what happened:
> 
> The boot seems to continue and finally X11 is started up.  I switch
> back to vterm1 with CTRL-ALT-F1 and see the login prompt.  But when I
> try to login on vterm1, I notice that the root shell is still running
> and tries to execute my login name as a command!  That means that login
> and shell were racing for terminal input from vterm1.
> 
> Next, I pressed CTRL-D several times to get rid of the shell.  Surprise:
> as soon as the shell exits, fsck on the remaining disks start to run!
> 
> That means, ctrl-alt-del started up into multiuser mode while not even
> all filesystems were checked/mounted.  I consider this to be a very
> strange behavior which is far from what I would have expected.

Any ideas on this problem?  Is it really supposed to be that way?