Bug#467203: gdm: Runs shutdown on tty7 but then switches to tty0

[Josselin Mouette]

On sam, 2008-02-23 at 18:25 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> It seems that gdm runs shutdown(8) on tty7, but then switches to tty0.
> The effect is that the user sees its "shutting down" message, but then
> no further messages until power is turned off. I actually thought that
> my system was crashing until I happened to switch to tty7 once and
> observed the output from various init scripts, etc, being printed there!

I think this is intentional. This way, you only see the “shutting
down” (which is all you need to know) message, but you can see what’s
happening by switching to tty7.

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