no scrolling text on shutdown

radiodee1 · 12-27-2007, 02:58 PM

I'm using lenny and I did some updates and now there's no scrolling text as the computer shuts down. It switches to a terminal screen, and in red says 'system is shutting down now' but that's all I see. Among the things I think I updated was gdm and some acpi stuff (acpi-support and acpi-support-base) but I don't know that any of that stuff would have this effect. Anybody know why this might be? Startup seems to be the same as before. Everything seems to work ok otherwise. any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Uruclef · 12-28-2007, 03:42 PM

You can try switching to another terminal (ctrl-alt-f1 to ctrl-alt-f6) or Xorg screen (ctrl-alt-f7 to ctrl-alt-f12) and see if the scrolling text is somewhere else.

radiodee1 · 12-29-2007, 10:05 AM

I looked at ctrl-alt-F2 to ctrl-alt-F6 and no text is showing up when I shut down. Those terminals have the same screens they had before I shut down. ctrl-alt-F7 is blank. Here's something... If I type 'echo hello > /dev/console' as root from an xterm, nothing happens. Shouldn't I see something on some screen -- either the xterm I'm in or the ctrl-alt-F1 screen or something? When I'm on the real terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) and I type the same, again as root, I see 'hello' on the screen.