ThinkPad: reboots after successful shutdown -p

Rob Belics robbelics at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 10:48:45 UTC 2021


> Hi,
>
> I recently noticed that if I do a 'shutdown -p' from -CURRENT, the
> system would shut down and seemingly powered off, then it would restart
> after about 5-10 seconds.
>
> Is this a known issue?  Arguably this is not necessarily a FreeBSD
> issue, but it seems that the Windows 10 installation doesn't have the
> problem, so I guess there might be some difference between our and
> Windows's shutdown sequence.

Check to see if your ThinkPad has Wake On Lan set on. This is what happens
to me when I forget to turn that off.


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