Today I just learned that systemctl --force --force reboot
is a command. We had a computer we remotely connected to which got permission errors and bus errors when we tried to reboot it normally. For some reason the mentioned command did actually manage to shutdown the computer bit did not manage to reboot it correctly.
I wonder what the double --force flag actually accomplishes and what possibly could hinder a regular reboot in this scenario.
The double
--force
is in the systemd docs. It’s covered in thesystemctl halt
section, so it’s talking about it in that context rather than as a reboot: