Don't accidentally hold down your power button

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Don't accidentally hold down your power button

16 March 2009, 10:15am

I just found out the hard way that my trick for disabling the power button under FreeBSD doesn't work if you press and hold it down. I was trying to reach behind to plug in a KVM cable to another computer, and unfortunately rested my hand on the power button. The case design has it right on the side so it's quite easy to press accidentally.

FreeBSD is NOT happy! Two mirrors are rebuilding, there's file system damage, enough for it to refuse to start... requiring fsck to be run manually. It's a database machine so I guess I'll be running a few REPAIR TABLE commands as well...