Updated to 13-STABLE in VirtualBox; on shutdown stuck after uhub[01] being detached

[parv/freebsd]

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:05 AM Guido Falsi wrote:

Hi,


On 28/04/21 00:12, parv wrote:
> > I had updated FreeBSD, in VirtualBox 5.22 on Windows with EFI, from
> > 12-STABLE
> > to 13-STABLE; upgraded the ZFS pools & the EFI boot loader. Currently
> > testing with 13 GENERIC kernel.
>
> You mean you enabled EFI inside virtualbox? Why do you need that?


For testing if FreeBSD can boot with EFI (with ZFS-on-root) ... one day I
may just install the thing directly on a disk, outside of a virtual machine
... one day!



> EFI
> support in VirtualBox is experimental and is available for OSes unable
> to boot without EFI. FreeBSD is perfectly able to boot in virtualbox
> without EFI so no need for it.
>

I am aware.



> > Now on shutdown, "shutdown -p now" (in single user mode, after manually
> > unmounting
> > ZFS datasets [...] the shutting down process gets stuck,
> > and CPU use jumps to 80%
>
...

> > In the end I chose "Power Off" from VirutalBox menu. "Reset" reboots the
> > machine.
> > None of these have any effect ...
> >    - Send the shutdown signal
> >    - ACPI Shutdown
> >
> > Help please.
>

Solved the issue via ...

  % sysctl hw.efi.poweroff=0
... after that shudown went on as expected. Got that from  ...


https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-13-does-not-shut-down-my-laptop.79853/


NOt sure even which further information to ask about this, but to be
> sure I understand correctly, FreeBSD is the guest here, correct?


Yes, FreeBSD is the guest on Windows 10 host.

- parv