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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:50:00 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        jkim@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_8 -- shutdown -p no longer powers off boxes
Message-ID:  <20100422195000.GA10082@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20100422143542.GA2208@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <20100422143542.GA2208@icarus.home.lan>

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:35:42AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Symptom: shutdown -p no longer powers off either of my systems; instead,
> the box reboots (e.g. shutdown -p behaves like shutdown -r).  Systems
> are a Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 board, and a Supermicro X7SBA board.  These
> are server-class boards.  I have not tried using the physical power
> switch yet.

Manual power switch behaves the same way (and given what I understand of
ATX and ACPI, this is normal).  The only way I found to shut the machine
off is to press the power button shortly after POST.

> I went digging through HEAD commits between the above dates ...

I realised I'll need to find when the ACPICA code was originally
committed to HEAD (probably much earlier than RELENG_8!), then work
forwards to present day to try and find the committed fix.

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |




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