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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: reboot command doesn't work
From:       Ted Unangst <ted.unangst () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-12-31 21:23:33
Message-ID: AANLkTik_iXLPoF2u7bWRhUoj1sPUj2w2=mFLSzaCppfh () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Markus Bergkvist
<markus.bergkvist@telia.com> wrote:
>> I've been using some Compaq Deskpro DPENS Pentium II machines as OpenBSD
>> firewalls since late 2.x to early 3.x. Recently I made the jump to 4.8 and
>> all
>> seems to work fine except I noticed the reboot command does not appear to
>> work. The machine gets halted, screen blanks out, but that's as far as it
>> goes. I re-installed 3.3 and confirmed the reboot works fine under 3.3.
>>
>> Any tips/hints to help troubleshoot or resolve this problem would be
>> greatly
>> appreciated.

We wouldn't have to play guess the machine if you sent a dmesg, but my
first approach would be to disable some combination of acpi and apm.

> Do you have powerdown=YES in /etc/rc.shutdown?

That has nothing to do with rebooting.

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