reboot issue

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When I log on to the rasp with ssh and type "reboot"(using usb keyboard and hdmi output is also tested), the following text appears:
"Broadcast message from root@bsquask
(/dev/pts/0) at 0:07 ...

The system is going down for reboot NOW!"

and can not input anything in the terminal, which seems normal, but after a long time(10 mins at least), the rasp still can not reboot.

Another thing is there is actually no booting info feed to hdmi which is different from raspbian.

PS: it seems the /var/log/messages is cleared after repower. (I manually "logger hello", but that message disappears after repower.) /var/log seems is not a directory in tmpfs. Could anyone give me a hint?

/var/log/ is a symbolic link to ../tmp/
/tmp/ is mounted as tmpfs so it won't survive reboots. If you want to change that just delete the symbolic link and create a directory log under /var/

For debugging purposes this is nice, but when running in 'production' I prefer using tmpfs to avoid wear and tear (and a full sdcard)

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@limpens
Thanks.

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"reboot --force" is the force solution