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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:13:56 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
To:        Georgi Iovchev <geo@pulsar.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd i386 releng_7 odd problem - cant shut down
Message-ID:  <20080417231356.GA7194@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <77B45D4B596B40EBBF6760BBDBFB9DE5@geohomepc>
References:  <77B45D4B596B40EBBF6760BBDBFB9DE5@geohomepc>

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:57:52PM +0300, Georgi Iovchev wrote:
> Hello list
> I have really strange problem.
>
> When I select shut down (from gnome, or manually from console halt -p) the 
> system begins to shutdown. Actually everything looks fine ... it shuts down 
> correctly. Hard drives goes down, monitor is turned off etc... But after a 
> few seconds the computer powers on by itself!!!!
> This behaviour begen a few days ago ... I really cant remember what I did 
> this time...
> Yesterday I updated all sources and ports, recompilled world and kernel. 
> But the shutdown problem still exists.
> I tought that my motherboard may be broken. I have windows server 2003 too, 
> but with windows the shutdown works ok. So I think, my mobo is ok.

Try playing with sysctls hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot and
hw.acpi.handle_reboot.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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