Re: PR 42583: ACPI errors, HP DV6-1334US [Was: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD]

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:42:12PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Try 'shutdown -p now'. I've had problems with deadlocks when using halt -p
> due to processes not dying on time and the kernel getting stuck on their
> resources (or even panicking).

Another test is:

  sysctl -w machdep.sleep_state=5

(better not do that while running multiuser).

This powers off directly, w/o running the power management handlers.

Martin