Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* CLI command "shutdown -r now" USUALLY does not work, since systemd replaced sysvinit in Debian 8 "jessie". Posted problem on http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/used-to- shutdown-reboot-from-cli-but-since-systemd-replaced-init-shutdown-cmnd- broke-4175575779/ got advice to try commmand "init 6". When I try it, I USUALLY arrive - eventually - at a console login that reports errors - but amongst the confusing information are the username & password IN PLAIN TEXT! I also had a single occurrence of my root password split over two lines also in plain text! Basically the reboot & shutdown commands from the CLI are REALLY buggy! Another respondent to my query on LQ.org suggested using: "systemctl reboot" this resulted eventually in poweroff/shutdown. The MOST annoying part of this bug is its variability: OCCASSIONALLY the commands work ok! But USUALLY not! Also SOMETIMES on booting-up again after an unwanted forced-shutdown, the machine powers off without warning USUALLY before the graphical Login appears & ONCE after an apparently successful login? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)