shutdown -r -> halt!

Joel rees at ddcom.co.jp
Wed May 11 02:24:56 PDT 2005


On Wed, 11 May 2005 10:27:19 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer at netfence.it> wrote

> Joel wrote:
> 
> >>As per subject: on a quite recent machine running FreeBSD 5.4, when I 
> >>issue "shutdown -r now" the machine powers off.
> >>Where do I start digging into this?
> > 
> > 
> > I have been wondering about this myself, so I searched for "shutdown
> > -p"+"freebsd"+"configuration" on google and found this:
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-January/005348.html
> 
> Maybe I wasn't that clear.

No, just fuzzy thinking on my part.

> My problem is just the opposite:
> your machines doesn't power off, mine does even when it shouldn't.

I was thinking maybe the problem lies in a similar area, something not
configured or configured wrong in APCI or APM, or maybe in your case a
driver not matching the hardware.

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