On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: > > A red message? I missed the earlier part of the thread so don't know > > what you're dealing with, but I suspect you must be in a gui environment, > > and telling the system to shut down via a mouse click or something. > > Yes. I am using the standard Debian Deskop task, so that's Gnome without > any bootsplashes. > > > The obvious problem with messages during shutdown is that, however they're > > shown, that medium is going to vanish, so you can't sit there and browse > > them ala dmesg after the system's turned off. > > I don't need to browse them. I just need to be able to see that the > rsync I run on shutdown or reboot is progressing or if it has stalled. > It could output smiley faces for all I care, as long as I see something > happening. I don't want to stare at a blank screen for 10 minutes and > wonder whether the backup has stalled or my girlfriend has simply been > downloading a bunch of large ISO images again. > > > 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 hope I've explained it better now.
I don't know anything about Gnome, but a google query for 'gnome "display shutdown messages"' (after trying some others) yielded a recent Ubuntu list thread that seems to be about your issue. Maybe take a look at tty7 for the init script messages? Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
