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Old 11th September 2008
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Default Shutdown problems

Whenever I try to shutdown or reboot my laptop it hangs right after the time spent up log. I have to hard shutdown at that point. Doesn't happen with my desktop...

I found the desktop's shutdown had binary content. On my laptop the file exists but is blank. I was going to copy the file over but ran into ownership problems between the file and my flash drive. I was about to chown the file, but I'm wondering what affect that might have when I replace it in my /sbin directory. Maybe a security issue I don't want.

There has to be a simple solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

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huh? what are you talking about?

replace what file, shutdown ??
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I found the desktop's shutdown had binary content.
err..what do you mean by desktop's shutdown? "The" Shutdown as in /sbin/shutdown?

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I was going to copy the file over but ran into ownership problems between the file and my flash drive.
i guess you want to copy the "shutdown" from your desktop to your laptop, am i right? if it so..maybe you could try to copy that binary, chown it, and put it in your laptop...

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IF you switched from linux and used shutdown -h now to turn of PC, on FreeBSD it's
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$ /sbin/shutdown -p now
to restart
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$ /sbin/shutdown -r now
P.S. Also, i don't really understand your problem.....
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The OP's /sbin/shutdown is zero'ed (0 bytes). If his desktop has the same FreeBSD version on the same architecture, copying it over and giving it the same permissions and ownership should be viable.
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If one file in the OP's /sbin directory is corrupt, perhaps others are as well.... re-installation might be advisable.
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Radtek, have you tried halt -p ?
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Or just hitting the power button if you kld'ed ACPI?
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Tried /sbin/shutdown -r now and halt -p

No luck.

Still hangs after posting uptime and I have to hit the power button. I was trying to avoid a re-installation but the comment that other files/drivers may be corrupted was a little worrying. Installation is a snap so I'll go that route and report back if it works (or doesn't).

I'm wondering if it has something to do with all the ATI chips onboard... Doesn't play nice with non-winderz OS's apparently.

I should have bought that Acer with the Nvidia chipset.

Thanks...
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No, it got nothing to do with chipsets etc
if after reinstall you have same problem... or something similar.... i would thing of HDD problems (bad blocks etc)
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Installed again early in the AM. Same problem. Then I updated all 236 packages. Broke my system and it wouldn't boot. Sigh...

Reinstall. Still the same problem.

Bad blocks... How do I scan for those and what might be the remedy?
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The only remedy for a disk with bad sectors is to replace it.
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