3.0 Turbo Color hangs on power off

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:40

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I've run out of ideas on this problem, although I don't have physical access to
the machine so I've had to troubleshoot over the phone.

Under PR2, everything worked normally.  For the first 3 power offs after the
upgrade to 3.0 (done with the Upgrade app in automatic mode), everything was
normal.  But now almost all (but not quite 100%) of power offs stop with a
blank screen whether from the Login Panel or from within Workspace (power off
without logging off first).  I know of no changes that occurred just before the
problem started, although something certainly must have changed.  I've not had
a chance to get a report of /usr/adm/messages (the machine is currently
travelling around the East Coast giving app demos).

A second press of the power off button does shut down the system, but without a
sync, so that must be near where the problem occurs.  But I don't know what the
shutdown process is using the power off button.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515

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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
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Subject: 3.0 Turbo Color hangs on power off
Date: 10 Oct 1992 22:40:39 GMT
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Summary: Second power off shuts down system dirty so fsck must be run on reboot