From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 20:34:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B4716A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DAC43D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:34:39 -0600 Message-ID: <40319980.4040303@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:33:04 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew L. Gould" References: <20040216194334.B491.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> <200402162154.45288.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200402162154.45288.algould@datawok.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2004 04:34:40.0203 (UTC) FILETIME=[5B53A9B0:01C3F50F] cc: gerard-seibert@rcn.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutting down system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:34:29 -0000 Andrew L. Gould wrote: >On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > >>I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed. >> >>I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my computer. >>I used the following command: >> >>shutdown -p now >> >>It simple gets to a point where it says press any key to restart. I never >>had any problem doing a power off shutdown using Windows XP. Can any one >>give me any assistance? >> >>Thanks! >> >>Gerard E. Seibert >>gerard-seibert@rcn.com >> >> > >Did you enable apm in /etc/rc.conf? > >What do you get when you execute the following? > >apm -s > >If you get a 0 (zero), then I don't think apm is enabled at bootup. See if >this works: > >apm -e 1 >shutdown -p now > >If it worked, then apm is functioning; but you need to enable it prior to >shutdown. > >Best of luck, > >Andrew Gould > > > Just curious ... 5.X uses ACPI, not APM, right? So does your advice still hold true? "$apm -s" returns 0 on my system, but shutdown -p works like a charm.... Should we perhaps also check whether or not "kldstat" returns "acpi.ko" ?? Kevin Kinsey