Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:40:53 +1030 From: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Deniz <daimler3@googlemail.com>, "alteriks@gmail.com" <alteriks@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't poweroff with shutdown -p now Message-ID: <fa58e4890912010210n628811b7l868ef11400671edb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19213.12766.405179.674995@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <791271c80911240549h66784e54v75565e5f9bfbc0c7@mail.gmail.com> <19213.12766.405179.674995@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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2009/11/26 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>: > Deniz writes: > >> =A0My thought is that it is related to ACPI. Same happens to me on >> =A0my laptop. =A0Did you try it with acpi turned off? > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Is there somwething going on with state-of-the-market mach= ines > that our ACPI doesn't account for? > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0The reason I ask: I recently build a new FreeBSD box using= the > ASRock AOD790GX. =A0Like the venerable (2001 vintage) machine it > replaced, "shutdown -p" works fine. =A0However, with "shutdown -r" the > shutdown part works but not the reboot. =A0(Otherwise a nice board.) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I'm willing to believe there's a BIOS setting that would f= ix > this; I just wish I knew what it was. > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0Robert Huff > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > I'm using an Acer Veriton T661 system at work and have noticed unreliable "shutdown -p now" behavior too. Sometimes the system will reboot instead of powering off, sometimes it will not power off and sometimes it works fine. I cant be sure if this started when I got that machine or when I upgraded to the Xorg that requires dbus and hal as I got the machine at the same time. I'd just put it down to the Acer BIOS but I know that Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 does not have this problem on the same machine. Matthew
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