[Bug 1174272] Re: 'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode, instead of rebooting

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

** Also affects: upstart
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: upstart
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: upstart
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)

** Changed in: upstart
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
   * reboot(8) command has behaviour different from the documented one, in
  particular when passing optional REBOOTCOMMAND argument, whilst not in
  runlevel 0 or 6 and without passing --force, shutdown(8) was not invoked
  with the appropriate arguments. Actual behaviour was dropping to
  runlevel 1, instead of the expected reboot.
  
  [Test Case]
  
-  * Whilst booted normally to runlevel 2 after executing:
+  * Whilst booted normally to runlevel 2, after executing:
  
     $ sudo reboot please
  
   * machine should complete reboot.

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Title:
  'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode, instead of rebooting

Status in Upstart:
  In Progress
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “upstart” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * reboot(8) command has behaviour different from the documented one,
  in particular when passing optional REBOOTCOMMAND argument, whilst not
  in runlevel 0 or 6 and without passing --force, shutdown(8) was not
  invoked with the appropriate arguments. Actual behaviour was dropping
  to runlevel 1, instead of the expected reboot.

  [Test Case]

   * Whilst booted normally to runlevel 2, after executing:

     $ sudo reboot please

   * machine should complete reboot.

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