kern/166806: Inability to reboot system

[Attilio Rao]

The following reply was made to PR kern/166806; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org>
To: RX <rx at sigint.ws>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/166806: Inability to reboot system
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:29:19 +0100

 2012/5/1, RX <rx at sigint.ws>:
 > On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Attilio Rao wrote:
 >
 >> Are you eventually able to make some tests on that machine if I send
 >> you some instruction/patches? Is the problem 100% reproducible?
 >> Can you try by starting with showing "sysctl hw.acpi.handle_reboot"
 >> and force it to 0 (and see what happens)?
 >
 >
 > Hello Attillio,
 >
 > I have hardware dedicated to resolving this problem.
 >
 > The problem is 100% reproducible.
 >
 > The sysctl you asked for is already set to zero.
 >
 > sysctl -a |grep handle_reboot
 > hw.acpi.handle_reboot: 0
 
 Can you try to update your BIOS to latest available version and see if
 handle_reboot changes its value?
 
 Thanks,
 Attilio
 
 
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