Re: 8.0 amd64 poweroff reboots

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 07:28:24PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> I have been using poweroff command (without any arguments) to power off a
> laptop on NetBSD 8.0_RC1 amd64.
> 
> Recently I installed 8.0 on a usb stick and notice that poweroff now
> reboots the laptop instead of powering off.

This likely is a crash late in the shutdown sequence, maybe try
setting 

	sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=1

and then run poweroff (or the prefered "shutdown -p now").
This will likely drop you into ddb, and you can take a picture of the
screen.

Martin