8.2-PRERELEASE freezing on reboot (-current OK)

[Arno J. Klaassen]

Hello,

Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> writes:

> 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

nope, no difference. Defaults are 0 for both sysctls, both on -current
and -8-stable.

I noticed that -current prints 'cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs' at the
very end were -8-stable doesn't.

Thanx for your answer, best, Arno