Dell 1950 won't cleanly reboot

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:07:56 am Olivier Mueller wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:32 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 22:04 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 04:04, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:43 -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:
> > > > > shutdown -r hangs most of the time.
> > 
> > > 1) Does this only happen if SMP is enabled?
> > 
> > no, I tried with an non-SMP kernel today, and it rebooted
> > correctely for my 4 tests.
> > 
> > > 2) If so, can you try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/shutdown.patch
> > 
> > first it looked ok (the 2 first reboots went fine), but then the
> > next 3 failed.
> 
> Any suggestion what I should try next?  (beside of switching back to
> linux... :>)  Should I try 7-CURRENT?  I know it's not (yet) under 
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html . 
> 
> The server is now 2-3 months old, I guess I am not the only one using
> this hardware under freebsd now? 
> 
> regards,
> Olivier, ready to test any patch :)

Are you still seeing hangs on reboot?  I fixed another shutdown hang in the 
ehci(4) that is a workaround for busted BIOSen that is in RELENG_6 and 
RELENG_7.

-- 
John Baldwin