Re: how to shut down NetBSD.

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:56:42PM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
> > Anders Lindgren wrote:
> > >On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>What I see in shutdown.png (URL above) looks normal to me.  I've
> > >>had that happen to me, but don't remember which NetBSD version
> > >>it was.
> > >
> > >While on the subject, I have since the upgrade to 5.0_STABLE (and
> > >onwards on the -5 branch to _RC1) suffered occasional failures to
> > >actually power off (using poweroff or shutdown -p) my nForce4
> > >chipset amd64 x2 box.
> > >
> > >Every once in a while it gets stuck in limbo instead; it shows all
> > >signs of powering off, including the "going to acpi mode 5" (or
> > >whatever it is) message on the console before the screen goes
> > >blank. But the hard disks and fans never turn off. I can't
> > >remember if the chassis power-on LED stays on, too. It is as if
> > >the box powers off everything but the fans and the hard disks,
> > >which keep spinning.
> > >
> > >Anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >ali:)
> > >
> > 
> > "Me too"
> 
> Oh dear: "Me too"
> -current/i386 intel ICH6 chipset

Something changed in -current/i386 during April: the laptop now switches
off properly! (Didn't end of March...)

Cheers,

Patrick