soft off powerbutton

Dan Ponte dcp1990 at neptune.atopia.net
Tue Oct 11 20:22:12 PDT 2005


On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:59:04PM -0400, Dan Ponte <dcp1990 at neptune.atopia.net> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> Hi all.
> 
> Has anything changed wrt: soft off via the ACPI power button? It used to
> work on 6-BETA4, but I upgraded to RC1 and now it just dumps me to ddb
> when I press the button. This is an ASUS CUSL2.
> 
> supermachine# uname -a
> FreeBSD supermachine.danponte.net 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #10: Mon Oct
> 10 14:47:38 EDT 2005
> (sources CVSupped from RELENG_6 only a few hours before the build time)
> -Dan
Err, disregard that....turns out the culprit was a change to the module
interface or somesuch that caused the system to crash when rtc.ko was
unloaded (which was out of sync with the new kernel).
Sorry to waste everyone's time.
-Dan
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