Devuan bug report logs - #633
qemu-guest-agent: Guest agent does not shut down the guest when requested to

Package: sysvinit; Maintainer for sysvinit is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for sysvinit is src:sysvinit.

Reported by: Fabio Muzzi <debianbugs@kurgan.org>

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:12:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: chimaera

Found in version 2.96-7+devuan1

Fixed in versions 3.00-1+devuan1, 2.96-7+devuan2

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Fabio Muzzi <debianbugs@kurgan.org>
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I have gone further and run gdb.

It seems that the agent actually tries to call /sbin/shutdown with the following parameters:

"-h -P +0 hypervisor initiated shutdown"

But if I run shutdown manually with these parameters, I get an error and the help message shows up:

root@fileserver:/sbin# /sbin/shutdown -h -P +0 hypervisor initiated shutdown
Usage: shutdown [-akrhPHfFnc] [-t sec] time [warning message]
-a: use /etc/shutdown.allow
-k: don't really shutdown, only warn.
-r: reboot after shutdown.
-h: halt after shutdown.
-P: halt action is to turn off power.
can only be used along with -h flag.
-H: halt action is to just halt.
can only be used along with -h flag.
-f: do a 'fast' reboot (skip fsck).
-F: Force fsck on reboot.
-n: do not go through "init" but go down real fast.
-c: cancel a running shutdown.
-q: quiet mode - display fewer shutdown warnings.
-Q: full quiet mode - display only final shutdown warning.
-t secs: delay between warning and kill signal.
** the "time" argument is mandatory! (try "now") **

So it seems that /sbin/shutdown does not like the command line that qemu-agent uses.

It seems that the Devuan shutdown command wants a mandatory "time", so for example

shutdown -h -P now

works.

But the qemu agent uses a syntax that is wrong for the Devuan shutdown binary, while it works fine for the systemd-infested shutdown that is just a link to systemcl (in Debian 11).

A workaroung is to rename /sbin/shutdown and create a script that calls shutdown with a command line that it accepts, like:

/sbin/shutdown -h -P now hypervisor initiated shutdown

Notice the "now" instead of the "+0" in the arguments.

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Devuan bug report logs - #633 qemu-guest-agent: Guest agent does not shut down the guest when requested to

Devuan bug report logs - #633
qemu-guest-agent: Guest agent does not shut down the guest when requested to