shutdown(8) not working after upgrade to 10.1-BETA3

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yamagi Burmeister" <lists at yamagi.org>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 4:14 PM
Subject: shutdown(8) not working after upgrade to 10.1-BETA3


> Hello,
> I've updated my system from 10.0-RELEASE to 10.1-BETA3. The exakt
> version is:
> 
> FreeBSD happy.home.yamagi.org 10.1-BETA3 FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 #0 r272260:
> Sun Sep 28 19:35:56 CEST 2014
> root at happy.home.yamagi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> For some strange reasons shutdown(8) is no longer working for me. I
> type "shutdown -p now" into a virtual console. getty(8) exists on
> that console, but stays alive on any other consoles. After that nothing
> happens, the system continues to run like nothing ever happened. I'm
> able to login into another virtual console or via SSH, can start X.org
> and continue with my work.
> 
> In contrast to that "halt -p" is working fine. The system shuts down
> immediately and the power is turned off.
> 
> After typing "shutdown -p now" (while the shutdown process is hanging)
> "procstat -k 1" gives:
> 
> 1 100002 init - mi_switch sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig
> _cv_wait_sig ttydev_leave ttydev_close devfs_close VOP_CLOSE_APV vgonel
> vgone devfs_revoke VOP_REVOKE_APV sys_revoke amd64_syscall Xfast_syscall
> 
> Looks to me that init(8) waits on a some tty to close. Which apparently
> never happens. A similar case was reported here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-July/079159.html
> 
> I wonder if I'm the only one seeing this. If necessary further data can
> be provided.

Does sysctl hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1 before running the shutdown prevent
this issue for you?

    Regards
    Steve