Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:16:15 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop doesn't power off Message-ID: <4ad871310908080716x188bf954l2936efbc1850a367@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1d93450908080709x4cc9d006i9da7a995e2a70030@mail.gmail.com> References: <3f1d93450908080021j2e34286fxb46991bfea2da1b8@mail.gmail.com> <fe3551530908080500x10943aa0l5b161562e754075c@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908080537g4933bd85idd01288de764b38b@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908080709x4cc9d006i9da7a995e2a70030@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Tim Matthews<tim.matthews7@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 08 August 2009 pm 15:21:17 Tim Matthews wrote: >> >* I have a sony vaio sz483n. The powering down works almost fine >> >> *>* up until the last step. The screen goes clear as it is about to >> *>* power down but then it just stays in a kind of on state. >> *>* >> *can you run a normal 'shutdown now' and press then the power >> >> >> button? >> >> Erich >> >> > If I run "shutdown now" The last thing that gets printed to the screen is > enter path to shell or press return for /bin/sh. This hasn't attempted to > power off my laptop so holding the power button down does still work but is > it safe to do so? Even if so I would really prefer a working implementation > of soft off like M$ windows and linux can do. Tim, 'shutdown now' drops you into single user mode. I am a little confused why you were asked to do this. What happens when you run 'shutdown -p now' at the console? Can you boot with verbose logging next startup, and see if anything important/useful is displayed next shutdown? -- Glen Barber
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