Re: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:06:42 UTC
On 01/07/2023 16:37, Tom Everett wrote:

> … a follow-up that things have been stable, until this morning when I 
> woke up to essentially the same; system hung and unresponsive to the 
> keyboard or ssh.
>
> …


Add the line below to /etc/sysctl.conf then restart the OS.

hw.acpi.power_button_state="S5"


S5 should cause a press on the power button to gracefully shut down the 
computer. In my experience this button sometimes works when FreeBSD is 
otherwise unresponsive.

I guess, the next thing to consider would be graphics.