On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Sander Marechal <s.marec...@jejik.com> was heard to say: > > If you turn off your gui environment and shutdown from a console, e.g., > > hit Alt-F1 to go to tty1, then enter "sudo shutdown -h now" or similar, > > then I would think you'd see some messages there. > > Yes, then I see the messages. But I used to see those messages too when > I simply clicked "System -> Shutdown" in Gnome. I don't have any kind of > bootsplash. When I shutdown through Gnome I get a terminal in front of > me with: > > --- > System is shutting down, please wait... > --- > > After that should appear messages like "shutting down gdm", "stopping > alsa", "unmounting network filesystems", etcetera, etcetera. All the > things that the init.d scripts say. They showed both in Etch and on my > previous Lenny machine, but on this new Lenny system they don't show.
I think sometimes the messages show up on the console where gdm was running. Try pressing Alt-F7 when you see that message (or if you're already looking at that console, try Alt-F1). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
