Re: /sbin/shutdown STILL not working (NetBSD-9.2_STABLE)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAKP-rwF2exeYXDVzY5Ja5jaZii-ooh0s-x=cCUQYtTjLiQE1wQ%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Henry  <nbsd4ever%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>I've been trying to upgrade my main server to 9.x since early this
>year, first with 9.0_current, then 9.1_current and last week,
>NetBSD-9.2_STABLE.  All three of these distributions have a glitch
>with /sbin/shutdown.  I reported the problem with 9.1 on May 20, in a
>post "NetBSD 9.1, /sbin/shutdown not working".  I was hoping it would
>be fixed in 9.2_STABLE, but no such luck.
>
>Since I cannot power down the machine remotely, this glitch is fatal,
>and I cannot use NetBSD until I can pin down the cause and correct it.
>I'm desperate.
>
>To review what happens:
>Issue the command '/sbin/shutdown -p now' and the system proceeds to
>shutdown normally, but comes to a dead stop without powering down.
>The last four lines left on the screen are (same as with 9.1):
>acpitz0: workqueue busy: updates stopped
>core1temp0: workqueue busy: updates stopped
>core2temp: workqueue busy: updates stopped
>acpibat0: workqueue busy: updates stopped
> The only way to power the machine off is to physically press and hold
>down the power button.
>
>I really have no idea how to proceed.  Would compiling a custom kernel
>perhaps solve the problem?  What should I configure differently from
>GENERIC?
>
>There is one major difference from previous installs of NetBSD that I
>have done.  This is the first time for me to use an EFI machine and
>use a GUID partition table.  Would it make sense to try installing
>with a BIOS MBR partition table to perhaps work around the
>/sbin/shutdown problem?
>
>After 25 years with NetBSD, I don't want to give up now! Any and all
>help appreciated.  TIA!

Can you get into ddb at that point? Is the keyboard responsive on the
console. Is your kernel DEBUG/LOCKDEBUG/DIAGNOSTIC?

christos