From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 10:43:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26215 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26207 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA02823; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:42:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: netnology@psinet.net.au cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown command In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970825131557.00960690@mail.psinet.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 netnology@psinet.net.au wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a problem using freebsd 2.2.2 running on an AMD 586 133 chip. > Everything works fine except for restarting the machine. The command > "shutdown -r now" used to force a reboot, seems to be working, sync's the > disks and then does nothing. I leave it for about 20-25 minutes and still > it won't restart. The "shutdown now" command works fine, but now with the > "-r" option. This used to work when using 2.0.5, but since the upgrade - > nothing. > > Regards > Craig Beasland I am having exactly the same problem here (and with reboot as well) running 2.2-STABLE on an Intel 486DX2-66 box. It worries me because it also means the system cannot reboot itself if it has to. -Dave