From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 4 17:58:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC10037B405 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:58:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA51x0R47642 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:59:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:58:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE hanging problem with ibm thinkpad laptop In-Reply-To: <20011103233250.E93468@johncoop.MSHOME> Message-ID: <20011104205431.U47566-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > On 2001.11.03 23:08 Jason Hunt wrote: > > I have an IBM Thinkpad 560E laptop. I was running a 4.4-STABLE > > from September, and it was great. I cvsup'd to 4.4-STABLE on > > November 3rd, and now when I reboot or shutdown, it kills daemons, > > synch's disks, and shows the uptime. Normally it would either > > reboot or turn the machine off, or tell you to press and key to > > reboot and you can turn it off manually. Instead, it hangs and I > > have to hard-reboot the machine. Any help? The generic kernel > > did this as well. > > > Actually, the behavior you have now is 90% of what is supposed to > happen. Something was wrong if you weren't seeing the daemons get > killed, syncing of disks, etc. It looks like the problem is that > you're getting a shutdown even when you want a reboot. Well, the > laptop types should be able to suggest some kernel options that might > get you somewhere there, but it sounds like cycling power at the end of > the "shutdown" will get you most of what you want. Obviously, since I > don't have a laptop running FreeBSD, your mileage may vary . . . -- Make sure you have the following in your kernel, to allow the APM stuff to work correctly: device apm0 This is disabled in GENERIC, btw. shutdown -r and shutdown -p should then do the right thing, as should apm -z and apm -Z. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message