openSUSE 12.x: today the same system would not plain “reboot” either (was: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown)

A long time ago I wrote about openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.” « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Well, today, for the very first time, a plain “reboot” didn’t work on this system either showing the same symptom as the “halt”: it would shutdown all services, but not perform an ACPI power cycle.

Luckily the system is still on ESXi, so I could reboot using the ESXi vSphere client.

–jeroen