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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:49:54 +0000
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
Subject:   Re: 'poweroff' seems to (only) halt as of main-n267841-0b3f9e435f2b
Message-ID:  <20240130164954.65b784f4@ernst.home>
In-Reply-To: <ZbkRdaGt1c2-0yS7@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:10:45 -0800
David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:49?PM David Wolfskill wrote:
> > > The machines where I track head (& stable/14) daily get powered off =
once
> > > they have finished their work for the day; this is done via "powerof=
f".
> > >
> > > I noticed (this morning) that one of them never actually powered off
> > > yesterday.  After today's exercises (including the reboot & subseque=
nt
> > > poweroff), I saw on the (serial) console:
> >
> > Have you tried hw.efi.poweroff=3D0 in /boot/loader.conf ? :-)
> > ....
>
> No; I don't mess with /boot/*.conf without a (plausibly good) reason.  :=
-)
>
> But I can experiment... so I'm trying it now.
> ...
> Hmm... I don't see any difference in behavior.
>
> These systems each boot using BIOS (vs. UEFI), in case that's relevant.
>

I use 'shutdown -p now' and it's never failed to power down my computers.

=2D-
Gary Jennejohn



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