freezes on Powering system off using ACPI

[John Marino]

On 12/29/2011 4:32 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> When I execute "shutdown -p now" to turn off DragonFLyBSD, it freezes
> right after syncing disks, done, uptime,  on "Powering system off using
> ACPI". I need to hold the power button to
> turn the system off.  I'm using DragonFly v2.13.0.733.gd7f53-DEVELOPMENT.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 

It's an annoying, long-standing bug that apparently isn't
high-visibility enough to get any attention:

http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2167
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2232

I would fix it if I could.
John