reboot after panic

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Mine is a nvidia 6300 mb with a dual core amd processor. I am causing the panic
> while trying to develope a DD for a EVDO usb modem - so it is not a great 
> problem - I was just surprised it wasn't rebooting. This is a 6.1 system.
>
> Yes it is sort of discouraging that it is hard to get answers when you 
> aren't running the latest and greatest kernel. In our case we have over 500 
> units in
> the field running a mix of 4.9 and 6.1 and it is not feasible to 
> continually upgrade them, especially since there is no documented way to 
> reliably upgrade
> a remote installation.

Does the system reboot OK if you issue the "reboot" command?

If not, then the problem is likely with the reboot method being used
(ACPI vs. non-ACPI) or ACPI tweakage prior to reboot, and not anything
to do with panics.  See the following two sysctls:

hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot
hw.acpi.handle_reboot

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