poweroff (shutdown -p) is broken

[Alexander Motin]

On 03.04.2013 02:15, deeptech71 wrote:
> As of r248872, my system, when ordered to power off, stalls at the
> "Uptime: [...]" message. Before that revision, the "Uptime" message
> would be followed by several additional messages -- something related to
> "usb controllers" -- before powering off.

Could you give any more information about your system and the problem? 
What disks and controllers do you have and which drivers do you use? 
Full verbose kernel messages from boot up to the hang (if you can set up 
serial console) could be interesting.

-- 
Alexander Motin