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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:16:15 -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
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Tim Matthews<tim.matthews7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 08 August 2009 pm 15:21:17 Tim Matthews wrote:
>> >* I have a sony vaio sz483n. The powering down works almost fine
>>
>> *>* up until the last step. The screen goes clear as it is about to
>> *>* power down but then it just stays in a kind of on state.
>> *>*
>> *can you run a normal 'shutdown now' and press then the power
>>
>>
>> button?
>>
>> Erich
>>
>>
> If I run "shutdown now" The last thing that gets printed to the screen is
> enter path to shell or press return for /bin/sh. This hasn't attempted to
> power off my laptop so holding the power button down does still work but is
> it safe to do so? Even if so I would really prefer a working implementation
> of soft off like M$ windows and linux can do.

Tim,

'shutdown now' drops you into single user mode.  I am a little
confused why you were asked to do this.

What happens when you run 'shutdown -p now' at the console?

Can you boot with verbose logging next startup, and see if anything
important/useful is displayed next shutdown?

-- 
Glen Barber



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