Re: Shutdown

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:04:53PM -0400, Clark Chapman wrote:
> I am a recent convert from Dragonfly running NetBSD 5.1 GENERIC on a
> desktop. One problem still remaining concerns shutdown.
> 
> If I enter 'shutdown -h now' the system goes to the message 'Press
> any key to reboot' then I can power off using the power button.
> 
> If I enter 'shutdown -p now' the system goes to the message 'acpi0:
> Entering state 5' then the system freezes, the power button doesn't
> work and I have to turn off the power supply.
> 
> To complicate matters sometimes everything works perfectly.
> 
> I have attached the dmesg.

I have just sent a patch to port-i386 and port-amd64 that may or may not
help with this.

Dave

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