Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:44:49 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppc and ppbus break ctrl-alt-del and reboot? Message-ID: <36E3AA21.9ADE9A91@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9903071656290.323185-100000@waimea.cs.unm.edu>
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Colin Eric Johnson wrote: > > I've just in the last couple of days starting playing with the ppc and > ppbus controllers in the 3.1-STABLE kernel. While they do seem to be able > to sense the parallel port in my machine something else, very strange, has > occured. When I attempt to reboot my machine either with ctrl-alt-del or > the reboot command all goes well until the actuall reboot of the machine > occurs, at which point the entire machine locks up. The file system syncs > all seem to happen correctly and the machine is properly halted but will > not reboot and nothing short of a complete removal of power will shut the > machine off and allow me to restart. I'm doing this on a Dell Lattitude > CPi so pulling the power means unplugging it and removing the battery (the > power switch won't respond). > Do you have the same problem when doing a "shutdown -h" (or halt) instead of a reboot? A colleague of mine has an IBM Thinkpad which locks when halting/rebooting. However, I think that this also happened when he was running 2.2.8 on his laptop. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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