On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 10:41:46 AM Carl Turney wrote:
Thanks. You're the only response so far to that post.
Eep. So I tested at work on my laptop there when I powered it up for the day and...
Symptoms are consistently the same for all 3 commands (init 1 - telinit 1 - shutdown now).
...that's expected, they're all effectively synonyms (or they should be)...
Happens at least on Ubuntu 14.4 and Mint 17.
Does not happen on Ubuntu 10.4.
Screen briefly flashes. Screen goes totally black. Power remains on. No disk activity.
I get the same behaviour here up to this point too, just a black screen. This is Intel graphics so no nasty binary drivers to complicate the issue.
No response to ctrl-d ctrl-alt-del ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, etc. Hitting reset button or power cycling results in a reboot that includes a disk integrity check.
For me CTL-ALT-DEL does work, it drops back to the graphical login for a second then reboots cleanly. But yes, it appears shutdown to single user mode doesn't work there. Interestingly systemd on CentOS7 interprets "shutdown now" as "poweroff" whereas "telinit 1" works as you'd expect it to. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC