Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:38:06 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop doesn't power off Message-ID: <4ad871310908080738y2bc48a35i7c5d6f00032c7813@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1d93450908080732h617d3206t69f7e90f4cdd82a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <3f1d93450908080021j2e34286fxb46991bfea2da1b8@mail.gmail.com> <fe3551530908080500x10943aa0l5b161562e754075c@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908080537g4933bd85idd01288de764b38b@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908080709x4cc9d006i9da7a995e2a70030@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310908080716x188bf954l2936efbc1850a367@mail.gmail.com> <3f1d93450908080732h617d3206t69f7e90f4cdd82a3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tim Matthews<tim.matthews7@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> What happens when you run 'shutdown -p now' at the console? > > Clears screen disables everything including the otherwise work-anytime > button that I can hold down but doesn't actually power-off requiring me to > remove battery and unplug cord. The shutdown routine acts pretty normal and > it is only at the very last step which would be on blank screen then power > is lost about a second or less later. > Does this happen if you disable ACPI at boot? >> >> Can you boot with verbose logging next startup, and see if anything >> important/useful is displayed next shutdown? > > I have tried this before and didn't notice anything unusual but I will try > to post log files within next 24 hours. Would the FS have been unmounted at > the point of error anyway? If you are using UFS2, by default if the filesystems were not cleanly unmounted, the machine would run fsck_ufs at boot. You would notice this happen because (normally) it would cause lag on the machine. > Because the screen is blanked log files are what > I can give nothing on screen. Is the file /var/log/messages the one we > should be looking at. If the filesystem is already unmounted, no. It cannot write to /var/log/messages at this point. -- Glen Barber
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