Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:32:32 -0700 (MST) From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppc and ppbus break ctrl-alt-del and reboot? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903080930470.186-100000@sherman.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <36E3AA21.9ADE9A91@we.lc.ehu.es>
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > Colin Eric Johnson wrote: > > > > I've just in the last couple of days starting playing with the ppc and > > ppbus controllers in the 3.1-STABLE kernel. While they do seem to be able > > to sense the parallel port in my machine something else, very strange, has > > occured. When I attempt to reboot my machine either with ctrl-alt-del or > > the reboot command all goes well until the actuall reboot of the machine > > occurs, at which point the entire machine locks up. The file system syncs > > all seem to happen correctly and the machine is properly halted but will > > not reboot and nothing short of a complete removal of power will shut the > > machine off and allow me to restart. I'm doing this on a Dell Lattitude > > CPi so pulling the power means unplugging it and removing the battery (the > > power switch won't respond). > > > > Do you have the same problem when doing a "shutdown -h" (or halt) > instead of a reboot? A colleague of mine has an IBM Thinkpad which > locks when halting/rebooting. However, I think that this also happened > when he was running 2.2.8 on his laptop. No, in fact I don't a shutdown -h does what it is supposed to do. I haven't tried rebooting after a shutdown, only powering off so I don't know but I suspect that the problem is somewhere in how a reboot is generated on the machine. I'm pretty at the ``grasping at straws'' stage here. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ ``Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.'' -Stanislaw Lem "King Globare and the Sages" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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