can't soft reboot after install

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:48:33PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:44:20 -0500, John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:
> 
>     > At the end of an install, my install client has a message that says 
>     > press enter to reboot. But it doesn't work.In fact, issuing a shutdown 
>     > command doesn't work. I've tried "shutdown -r now", "reboot". I've tried 
>     > logging in via ssh and issuing those same commands. I have to power 
>     > cycle the machine to get it to boot into the new install. Any ideas?
> If you log in from remote, try fai-reboot.
> But pressing return should work.

I used to ssh into the node during installation, and run "tee -f /tmp/fai/fai.log"
to wait for FAI to finish - which at the end shows the request to press Enter.

It didn't reboot.

It took me a couple of minutes to find out why... and this happens over and over
again.

- S