[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#782908: base: reboot issues, computer freezes after using reboot or systemctl reboot commands

[Michele Bucca]

Package: base
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I've installed a debian base system using a net install ISO and HdMedia kernel and initrd.
I set debconf priority to *low* so tha installer gave me extra questions like it's used to do in a expert install.
Installation was successful, however when the system tried to reboot it did not work as my PC did actually freeze.
The problem aslo affects the installed system, all these commands bring the same results: the system will freeze when it says

reboot: Restarting system

List of commands that i've tried to give to the system

sudo reboot
sudo systemctl reboot -i
sudo systemctl reboot --force

There weren't additional devices attached to the system nor additional packages installed
just the base system and the standard system utilities

Maybe the problem could be kernel related, I have another system based on slackware with the 3.17 kernel version and it has the same issues.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)