laptop no longer reboots

[Julian Elischer]

David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:44:54PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>> ...
>>> Is there anyone who knows what's goin gon with all the new acpi/bios/whatever code,
>>> that might have any idea why my laptop no longer reboots?
>>> it gets all the way to the final infinite loop and sits there.
>>>
>>> Dell Inspiron 7500
>>>
>>> up to date sources as of ummmm monday..
>> ...
>> at "Uptime: ..." ever since I got it last year.
> 
> g1-1(7.0-C)[1] uname -a
> FreeBSD g1-1.catwhisker.org. 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #503: Wed Aug  1 09:04:18 PDT 2007     root at g1-1.catwhisker.org.:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY  i386
> g1-1(7.0-C)[2] 
> 
> Presently in the middle of "make buildworld" for today's CURRENT;
> this is a Dell Inspiron 8200.
> 
> And as you can see, I've done this a few times -- been building CURRENT
> daily (with a few exceptions) since I got the machine.

yaeh, but can it reboot?

> 
> Granted, I do most of my "real work" in RELENG_6, but surviving a
> "make buildworld/kernel" while running X should coulnt for something.
> 
> Peace,
> david