Suddenly "shutdown -p now" produces a reboot

[Tim]

Leslie Jensen wrote:
> I have a Server with Squid, 7.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD, squid-3.0.11, that 
> has been running fine for the last six months, at least.
> 
> It is shutdown every night at 7 PM via cron.
> 
> Now suddenly the machine is rebooting instead, and I've made no changes 
> whatsoever. I'm wondering if this is a symptom of a coming hardware 
> failure or if I can do something to get the normal behaviour back.
> 
> I did have a similar problem when I first put the machine into 
> production, then it was clear from /var/log/messages that squid did not 
> have enough time to shutdown and I solved it by changeing the parameter
> rcshutdown_timeout="90" i rc.conf.
> 
> Here's a piece of /var/log/messages
> 
> 
> ----------- snip ------------
> Jan  1 19:05:00 server01 shutdown: power-down by root:
> Jan  1 19:05:33 server01 squid[823]: Squid Parent: child process 826 
> exited with status 0
> Jan  1 19:05:34 server01 named[718]: stopping command channel on 
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Jan  1 19:05:34 server01 named[718]: stopping command channel on ::1#953
> Jan  1 19:05:34 server01 named[718]: exiting
> Jan  1 19:05:36 server01 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Jan  1 19:07:29 server01 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Jan  1 19:07:29 server01 kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD 
> Project.
> Jan  1 19:07:29 server01 kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 
> 1988, 1
> 989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> Jan  1 19:07:29 server01 kernel: The Regents of the University of 
> California.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> ----------- snip ------------
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Leslie
> 
> 
> 

Leslie,

I've got a gateway (talking pc mfg, not role) that does that.  It's 
always rebooted on a request to shutdown.  A fix, if I remember it 
right, that didn't last long was to go into BIOS and toggle the BIOS 
power management features.  IIRC, it was set to disable, and I enabled it.

Since then, i haven't really used that gateway anymore.  You have to 
consider that some PCI devices can power-on a box (think: Remote Wakeup 
[which is done over the LAN]).

The times that it does actually do it, don't bother me, i'll get around 
to forcing it down with a power button or power cord when it bugs me 
enough that it's still powered on. >:)

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Tim Judd

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