In article <e1nskqn-000nq7...@daland.home>, Alex Goncharov <alex-goncha...@comcast.net> wrote: >,--- I/Alex (Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:44:29 -0500) ----* >| Thank you: over the next few days, I am planning to attempt a BIOS >| upgrade and enter a PR with an ACPI dump > >Did both -- the BIOS upgrade did not help. > >There is more information than listed in the PR, if anybody is >interested (and, of course, I can do more experimenting on demand). > >| Another thing about ACPI in NetBSD that bothers me: "halt -p" not >| always powers off a computer. >| >| I *think* I didn't forget the `-p' option to `halt' last night -- >| still, the machine was halted without switching off. > >Tried this again, on the laptop, submitting `halt -p' in an `xterm' >window displayed elsewhere -- the laptop doesn't power off, with the >old or new BIOS.
Try 'shutdown -p now'. I've had problems with deadlocks when using halt -p due to processes not dying on time and the kernel getting stuck on their resources (or even panicking). christos
