Dexter Ang (thepoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > 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. I believe it depends on what VTs were active when you started X/gdm. Bill