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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:54:01 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, jkim@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_8 -- shutdown -p no longer powers off boxes
Message-ID:  <20100423085401.GA28720@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20100423084606.GV2422@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20100422143542.GA2208@icarus.home.lan> <4BD0C9BA.2000405@icyb.net.ua> <20100423084606.GV2422@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:46:06AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:12:10AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 22/04/2010 17:35 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> > > I went digging through HEAD commits between the above dates and wasn't
> > > able to find much other than this, which appears to be the HEAD commit
> > > that was MFC'd to RELENG_8:
> > > 
> > > http://freshbsd.org/2010/04/02/23/04/31
> > 
> > I don't think this has been MFC-ed to 8.
> > Most likely a red herring.
> > 
> > AFAIK, there were no ACPI-related changes in 8 for the last couple of months, so
> > the issue must be elsewhere.
> 
> I have the 5046A-XB SuperWorkstation, and I can confirm that it restarts
> shortly after power halt. On the other hand, I thought that this is a
> hardware bug.

In my case, it's not a hardware nor BIOS (ACPI) bug.  Both of my systems
have worked just fine with "shutdown -p now" until recent commits to
RELENG_8.  Something broke this functionality between March 30th and
April 22nd.

I'll try to spend some time this weekend tracking it down...

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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