[Buildroot] [Bug 8331] kexec fails due to missing /usr/sbin/shutdown

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8331

--- Comment #3 from Dr I J Ormshaw <ian_ormshaw at waters.com> 2015-09-15 07:48:18 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Hmm, looking at the kexec source code I see:
> > 
> > static int my_shutdown(void)
> > {
> >         char *args[] = {
> >                 "shutdown",
> >                 "-r",
> >                 "now",
> >                 NULL
> >         };
> > 
> >         execv("/sbin/shutdown", args);
> >         execv("/etc/shutdown", args);
> >         execv("/bin/shutdown", args);
> > 
> >         perror("shutdown");
> >         return -1;
> > }
> > 
> > So having shutdown in /sbin seems fine?
> > 
> > Can you please provide more info about your config and what goes wrong?
> 
> The problem is that there is no shutdown in /sbin, shutdown is in /usr/sbin. I
> had to create a link in /sbin to /usr/sbin/shutdown.

I also raised a similay bug report 8336, to which I had a responce citing
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/514750/ as a fix.  That patch should also fix
this bug.

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