freebsd stable - Aug 2005 - "Shutdown -p now" not working in 5.4 STABLE

Hi Mike!
If you still manage this puzzle,
is there something in your bios that
affects 5.4 and not 5.1? Must be
"power" menue with apm and other
stuff. Acpi is on and should take
the whole process for you.
Best regards

                    Zoran

> 
> From: Zoran Kolic <kolicz@EUnet.yu>
> Date: 2005/08/06 Sat AM 12:39:31 EDT
> To: mse_software@character.net
> CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: "Shutdown -p now" not working in 5.4 STABLE
> 
> Hi Mike!
> If you still manage this puzzle,
> is there something in your bios that
> affects 5.4 and not 5.1? Must be
> "power" menue with apm and other
> stuff. Acpi is on and should take
> the whole process for you.
> Best regards
> 
>                     Zoran
> 
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You were right!

I was using a auto-power up feature to power the machine on automatically at a
certain time every day.  Everyting works after disabling it in the CMOS setup.

I was planning to use the `shutdown -p now' command to compliment the auto
power on feature in the BIOS to alleviate the need for the client to turn it off
and on.  This is not only because there isn't much computer literacy, but
also because I didn't want the disks spinning during the time no one is in
the office.

I'm curious, between 5.1 and 5.4, was the change made to more accurately
represent the hardware the system was running on (fixing a problem), or was it
simply due to other circumstances that resulted in the functionality being
broken?

I would definitely be interested in creating a patch to regain the functionality
if the development team didn't do it for a reason.  I don't want to
break what someone else has taken the time to fix.

Thanks,
Mike Eubanks