Extra terminal running before shutdown

muad · 11-28-2012, 06:09 PM

I'm running linux mint 13. Whenever I shutdown a terminal appears (not like the application but an actual fullscreen terminal) with the label tty1 and a prompt for a username to login. The computer always shuts down just fine but I am wondering why there is an extra terminal running in the background. I recently used ctrl-alt-f1 to bring up a terminal and shutdown, could that have caused this to happen? How do I stop the terminal from running in the background?

jlinkels · 11-28-2012, 06:17 PM

You have always 6 terminals running in the background (TTY1 - TTY6). They won't disappear - ever. After X has been shut down the visible screen switches back to the terminal which was there before X started, which is TTY1.

jlinkels

muad · 11-28-2012, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jlinkels

You have always 6 terminals running in the background (TTY1 - TTY6). They won't disappear - ever. After X has been shut down the visible screen switches back to the terminal which was there before X started, which is TTY1.

jlinkels

yes but this only started happening recently. Before only a blank screen saying something along the lines of 'sending shutdown signal' would appear before shutdown, but now the tty1 appears as well. Here is the output of ps -ef | grep tty

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root 1136 1 0 18:50 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
root 1141 1 0 18:50 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
root 1152 1 0 18:50 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
root 1153 1 0 18:50 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3
root 1155 1 0 18:50 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6
root 1219 1201 3 18:50 tty8 00:00:10 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/mdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt8
root 1417 1 0 18:50 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
1000 2500 2331 0 18:55 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto tty

Nbiser · 11-28-2012, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels

You have always 6 terminals running in the background (TTY1 - TTY6). They won't disappear - ever. After X has been shut down the visible screen switches back to the terminal which was there before X started, which is TTY1.

jlinkels

Not only this, but if you login to a different user account, and then go to a different one linux will sometimes kick you back to this login screen at shutdown; at least this is my experience.

jlinkels · 11-29-2012, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by muad

yes but this only started happening recently. Before only a blank screen saying something along the lines of 'sending shutdown signal' would appear before shutdown, but now the tty1 appears as well. Here is the output of ps -ef | grep tty

That output is perfectly normal. Shutdown sequence changes from one update to the next if new mechanisms are in place. Or if different programs are shutdown you might see different things. Shutting down is a highly multitasking process down until the last steps.

jlinkels