Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown

[eskild]

pfSense 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-03-27-2007-pfSense

Hi have just upgraded and moved the firewall service to another computer, and are experiencing a problem when i try to reboot pfSense. I get the following message:
"Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown"

and it's just hanging, and i have to switch it off on the power button. I have another almost identical(different motherboard revision) firewall where the reboot is working as expected.

Can anybody help out? Is there anything i can change in pfSense to get it to work?
I have tried to change all bios settings that is related to power on/off without any help.

Thanks,
//Eskild

pfSense is now shutting down …

Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processbufdaemon' to stop...done
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...
Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...0 0 done
All buffers synced.
Uptime: 4m33s
Rebooting...
Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown
/boot.config: -DConsoles: internal video/keyboard  serial port
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 638kB/260032kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(sullrich@builder.livebsd.com, Sun Oct 29 00:51:09 UTC 2006)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

[sullrich]

Unfortunately this sounds like a FreeBSD bug.

[eskild]

Ok,

Thanks

[eskild]

I know too little about FreeBSD to be at any help here, but i found some threads about this problem:

• The code for rebooting an SMP machine doesn't always work (still)
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-February/033225.html

Could the "hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1" be at any help here? Will this mean i have to set this option, and rebuild the kernel?

• 6.0 BETA3 reboot hangs on SMP system if BIOS USB disabled
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-smp/2005-August/000960.html

I am not using SMP and still experiencing the problem with hang during reboot.

I know the pfSense team is very busy with the 1.0.2 release, so i am not expecting much help from them, but I would really appreciate if anybody else have the time and oppertunity to look into this, and point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
//Eskild

[dotdash]

You shouldn't need to recompile the kernel or anything to test if that sysctl flag helps.
Just drop to a shell and edit /boot/loader.cfg Add hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1 to the file, then reboot and see if it helps the issue.

[hoba]

If it does feel free to update http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions with that info.

[eskild]

Thanks, i'll try that.