Bug#731416: gdm3: killing gdm-simple-slave switches to VT1, hiding important shutdown messages

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found -1 3.8.4-7

with a simple restart from gdm3.

On 2013-12-05 11:23:39 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When the gdm-simple-slave process is killed (e.g. during shutdown),
> gdm3 switches to VT1. During a shutdown (the only good reason of
> having gdm-simple-slave killed) from some arbitrary VT (mainly due to
> bug 729576), the consequence is that the remaining shutdown messages,
> which can give important information, are no longer visible.

I've done a restart (now that it is working without systemd-sysv,
thanks to systemd-shim, I suppose). This did a automatic switch
to VT1 (because gdm-simple-slave was killed in the process?), and
no shutdown messages were visible.

Note: if shutdown works fine, then I suppose that such messages
are not very important in general, but if anything goes wrong,
this makes it impossible to find out and debug.

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