On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 20:50, Dexter Ang wrote: [snip] > I noticed something in FC2 with regards to shutdown... > > Most of the time, shutting down from a Gnome desktop or from GDM, I see > the listing of services being killed (the one with the [OK] thing, > similar to the startup process). > > But there are times when I don't see this. What happens is all the Gnome > stuff ends (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc), and all I see, while shutting > down is my wallpaper. When X gets killed, I see the standard console > login prompt for a moment. Then shutdown. No service shutdown listing. > Very clean. It seems not as I get it maybe 1 out of 10 shutdowns. Indeed, I get this as well on FC2. The messages are actually being displayed on VT7, but "focus" (for lack of a better word) is actually on VT1. Greg