shutdown or acpi problem

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I have a kernel/world from r274273 sources, which is exhibiting a new
> issue on my old laptop.  Neither 'shutdown -p now' nor 'shutdown -r now'
> work.  I get to the end of shutdown and see for example
> 
> All buffers synced
> Uptime: 4h23m15s
> 
> and then the laptop just sits there.  It does not power off with
> the -p option nor does it reboot with the -r.  Has anyone else
> seen this behavior?
> 

Note booting /boot/kernel.old/kernel and then using 'shutdown -p now'
works as expected.  The old kernel was bulit from r271492 sources.
Any guidance on where to start to debug this issue would be welcomed.

-- 
Steve