Re: 'poweroff' seems to (only) halt as of main-n267841-0b3f9e435f2b

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:10:45 -0800
David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:49?PM David Wolfskill wrote:
> > > The machines where I track head (& stable/14) daily get powered off once
> > > they have finished their work for the day; this is done via "poweroff".
> > >
> > > I noticed (this morning) that one of them never actually powered off
> > > yesterday.  After today's exercises (including the reboot & subsequent
> > > poweroff), I saw on the (serial) console:
> >
> > Have you tried hw.efi.poweroff=0 in /boot/loader.conf ? :-)
> > ....
>
> No; I don't mess with /boot/*.conf without a (plausibly good) reason.  :-)
>
> But I can experiment... so I'm trying it now.
> ...
> Hmm... I don't see any difference in behavior.
>
> These systems each boot using BIOS (vs. UEFI), in case that's relevant.
>

I use 'shutdown -p now' and it's never failed to power down my computers.

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Gary Jennejohn