8.2-PRERELEASE freezing on reboot (-current OK)

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> just FYI that on an 8-way Tyan S3992-E based box, a reboot under
> 8.2-PRERELEASE (in fact, 8-stable since quite a while) makes the box
> freeze, whilst the same thing under -current works OK.

Try toggling these two sysctls on the 8.2-PRERELEASE box.  Be sure to
check what the defaults are before toggling them, and only mess with one
at a time.

hw.acpi.handle_reboot
hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot

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