Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Jan 2 16:57:17 PST 2004
Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> writes:
> I am running 5.2-CURRENT on my PII-400 desktop. I have done 3
> installs of FreeBSD each time cvsupping to 5.2 current (using ISOs for
> 5.1 and 5.2) to do the initial install.
>
> EVERY time I get the following problem. When I try to logout, reboot,
> or shutdown the machine from X, the machine locks up (no mouse or
> keyboard response) and I have to do a cold reboot. I am presented
> with the black text screen seen during bootup right before it launches
> X (sorry, don't know what to call it) with my
>
> login:
>
> prompt (again, no response from keyboard or mouse input...it's like X
> shuts down entirely and then the machine locks trying to go to the
> next step). This happens whether I use xdm, kdm, or gdm. I have seen
> other posts with some similar symptoms refer to ACPI and disabling
> this (I can't find the entry in my BIOS to turn this off). It's an
> old Asus P2B motherboard. I'm not even sure it's the problem, but I'm
> willing to look at anything!
5.1 has an errata entry describing how to disable the ACPI code in
that release: there's a new and supposedly easy way of doing this in
5.2, but I haven't seen it yet (I'm still on 4.x myself).
> I really want to use FreeBSD, but having to do constant cold restarts
> when I shutdown or try to switch users is going to get old fast (not
> to mention the eventual damage to my files...even though I've got soft
> updates enabled;) )
>
> I will provide any additional input I can, I realize it's not much to
> go on now, but hopefully those more knowledgeable than me can guide me
> to some things to look at to figure out why this is happening.
Does this happen with the release versions?
Does it happen if you don't enable X at all? [In other words, is this
an OS problem or an X11 problem...]
How did you install X, and what does your X configuration look like?
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