Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>> Although powerd is running, after every shutdown all partitions need to
>> be checked.
> 
> The message you cited is not printed if powerd is running.

Okay. Then the patched wd.c file somehow causes that powerd doesn't
start. Any ideas what might be responsible for this and how I could get
powerd starting also with the patched wd.c?

I booted the GENERIC kernel without this patch. It took about 5-10
minutes for the system to come up (including file system checks) and
powerd is definitely running now:

ultra10: {1} ps aux |grep powerd
root    365  0.0  0.1   56   872 ?? Is   11:29PM 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/powerd

I get the message "shutdown: halt by root: power button pressed" and
then the system powers off. And on the next startup _all_ partitions
need to be checked again.

Michael