I am seeing the same freeze when trying to shutdown _one_ of my four netBSD/
i386-es.

Paul

dmesg follows:
cpu0: family 5 model 2 step 5
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class)
real mem  = 16384000
avail mem = 14221312
using 225 buffers containing 921600 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82437FX System Controller (TSC) (rev. 0x02)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82371FB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX) (rev. 0x02)
Intel 82371FB IDE controller (PIIX) (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
S3 Trio32/64 (VGA display, revision 0x54) at pci0 dev 18 function 0 not configured
ne2 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: Winbond 89C940F Ethernet
ne2: Ethernet address 00:40:95:01:f1:c7
ne2: interrupting at irq 11
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
atapibus0 at wdc0
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <10X, , 1.3E> type 5 cdrom removable
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <Conner Peripherals 540MB - CFS540A>
wd0: 516MB, 1050 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1
vt0: unknown s3, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.32]
vt0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: read port 0x203
sb1 at isapnp0 port 0x220/16,0x330/2,0x388/4 irq 5 drq 1,5
sb1: Creative ViBRA16C PnP Audio: dsp v4.13
audio0 at sb1
joy0 at isapnp0 port 0x200/8
joy0: Creative ViBRA16C PnP Game
joy0: joystick not connected
biomask 4040 netmask 4840 ttymask 48c2
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs



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