How to reboot from start scripts?

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew Glen-Young wrote:

> On 09/10/2007, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
>> > > So there is really no way to properly shutdown/reboot from
>> > > single-user mode?
>>   - shutdown -r now
>>   - init 6
>>   - reboot
>>   - halt
>>   - ctrl-alt-del
>>   - CTRL-D
>>
>> _none_ of them reboots the system.  They all just continue the boot
>> process on a half-mounted system.  All of them (except CTRL-D) just leave
>> the single-user-shell running.  The result is that the single-user-shell
>> races with getty/login for input from /dev/tty1.
> 
> I missed the beginning of this thread, but your problem does not seem
> to be correct behaviour (or at least behaviour that I would expect).
> 
> I have tested your scenario with the only machine that I have the
> luxury of rebooting at the moment: Dapper LTS server. I can confirm
> that Dapper Server does not have this issue. I could reboot the server
> in all the ways listed above without issue.

That's what I suspected - Dapper also doesn't use upstart, iirc.  I think
this needs to be reported to upstart-devel and see what they say.

Oh, look.  It already was:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/66002

Try: "reboot -f" - it doesn't look as if anybody is over-concerned about
changing the behaviour, since it's been open for a year.
-- 
derek