From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 6 10:39:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8520A16A4DE for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5D343D49 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:39:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so320653wxd for ; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.21.4 with SMTP id 4mr2134194wxu; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h12sm2430928wxd.2006.08.06.03.39.39; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@seibercom.net) by seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5385AC1AA for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 06:39:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 06:39:41 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200608052358.k75Nw6DO003235@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060806063807.28B6.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: Will not boot from halt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:39:41 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Then I could let it set and either cut the power or hit a key > and make it reboot. > > But. Now, I do the shutdown -h now and it goes down to that > halted state with the same message. But, when I hit a key > it seems to ignore it and just sits there and seems to do nothing. > To reboot then, I have to kill the power and turn it back on. > > I am not trying to get it to go all the way down to poweroff - > just sit there and wait for me to hit a key for a reboot - without > doing a poweroff, which worked fine under FreeBSD 4.xxx > > Has anyone noticed something like this? Is it an OS change/bug > or did I probably do something weird when I did the reinstall. > It is more of an annoyance than a big problem, but something isn't > right. > > By the way, shutdown -r now seems to work as expected. I have the exact same problem after updating from FBSD 5.4. I had thought it was just me. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net