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.
Weird choice tbh. I’d make --force --force a separate option if possible.
You just really force it.
It’s like with
-vin various applications.-vmeans “verbose”, and-vvmeans “really verbose”, and-vvvmeans “an ungodly amount of data printed to the terminal, so much that it might crash”.–force-and-I-really-mean-it-this-time
Yeah, duplicate flags should just be ignored.