On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:32:13AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: > For the Record, I don't have a true Solution to the Issue yet, but i saw > a small flag in /etc/sysctl.conf that read machdep.apmhalt. After > enabling that and rebooting, halt -p now powers off my Machine 9 times > out of ten. Not perfect, but a solution.
Have you submitted a formal bug report (with a dmesg and debugger output from ps and trace)? I myself have been attempting it, but every time that this bug occurs it seems that I'm in a hurry to get somewhere, and don't have time to carefully copy the outputs of ps and trace to paper.
