[acpi-jp 2583] ACPI sleep_delay caused reboot

[Nate Lawson]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Anish Mistry wrote:
> I cvsup'd over the weekend and my laptop started to reboot after the second
> resume.  I checked the hw.acpi.sleep_delay and the default value seems to be
> changed to 5.  This would happen with earlier ACPI imports, but the default
> was zero, so it would be fine.  Can't seem to get and crash dumps since it
> just restarts.  I'll send the dmesg and acpidump info when I'm back at home.
> - --
> Anish Mistry

For a workaround, do:
  echo hw.acpi.sleep_delay=0 >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Unfortunately, we can't have it both ways and the delay helps some users
so you'll have to use this until we find what's wrong.

-Nate