RELENG_8 -- shutdown -p no longer powers off boxes

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Fri Apr 23 08:59:22 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:46:06AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:12:10AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 22/04/2010 17:35 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> > > I went digging through HEAD commits between the above dates and wasn't
> > > able to find much other than this, which appears to be the HEAD commit
> > > that was MFC'd to RELENG_8:
> > > 
> > > http://freshbsd.org/2010/04/02/23/04/31
> > 
> > I don't think this has been MFC-ed to 8.
> > Most likely a red herring.
> > 
> > AFAIK, there were no ACPI-related changes in 8 for the last couple of months, so
> > the issue must be elsewhere.
> 
> I have the 5046A-XB SuperWorkstation, and I can confirm that it restarts
> shortly after power halt. On the other hand, I thought that this is a
> hardware bug.

In my case, it's not a hardware nor BIOS (ACPI) bug.  Both of my systems
have worked just fine with "shutdown -p now" until recent commits to
RELENG_8.  Something broke this functionality between March 30th and
April 22nd.

I'll try to spend some time this weekend tracking it down...

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