Unable to reboot
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I upgraded my system from 1.2.3 to 2.0RC3 and the only problem I am having is the ability to reboot. I can perform a reboot from the GUI, the pfSense system will shutdown and will display the uptime but will not restart. When it was running 1.2.3, the system would restart without any issue. I thought it may be related to the BIOS, reset the BIOS, no change..I have also added the variable hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to the tuning. Any thoughts out there?
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Try this:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_won%27t_my_system_automatically_power_down_or_reboot%3F
Or what I posted here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,32215.msg166758.html#msg166758
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Thank you very much for the ideas, unfortunately it did not work. Any other thoughts?
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Only that at the point it's getting to, that is all BIOS/ACPI - might be a BIOS setting, BIOS update, etc, hindering you.
And you want ACPI enabled if you can.
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Well I don't think a BIOS update is in my future…it is a rather old A7V8X Asus motherboard. It is running an Athlon XP proc and I am runniing the I386 version of pfsense...would that matter?
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No that should be fine. I ran FreeBSD for years on an A7N8X (same vintage, but nvidia chipset) and it worked great, including shutdown/reboot.
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Should this variable hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1 be added to the system, advanced, system tunables section?
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You can put it there, or in /boot/loader.conf.local
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No luck with your suggestion…have reset BIOS back to it's original setting for pfSense 1.2.3 where the reboot worked. I agree that this is a FreeBSD issue and not a pfSense problem. Let me know if you come across anything else.
