Quoth Ed Kaczmarek on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:56:56AM -0800: > Greetings, using build 106 I experience a hang of at least 10 minutes > (that's as long as I can wait) attempting a poweroff shutdown (init > 5 or shutdown -g0 -i5 -y). > > If I use poweroff, sure enough it powers off. So I would say the ACPI > power off functionality, if you call it that, works fine. > > init 5, worked on build 103. > > svcs -x shows nothing in maint mode. > > How to debug the shutdown process, to see what's hanging where ?
Does "svcs" show any services online? svc.startd should print "The system is down." on the console before it tells the kernel to shut down. Do you see that? David