Bug#770886: systemd-sysv: Silence on shutdown; sytem hangs without any indication why

[rlfrost]

Gentlemen,

I too have seen this bug more or less consistently on new Jessie 
systems.  It seems to occur at random intervals and does not depend on 
whether or not I shut down the system from a graphical interface or via 
the command line.  As far as I am able to tell, there is not log 
information available following a manual power off and restart. It does 
appear to occur more frequently if I am doing a remote (vnc) shutdown or 
reboot, but even that works more often than not.  If you have any 
information regarding how I could send more useful input, please let me 
know.

Larry Cadle
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:21:04 -0600 John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> 
wrote:
 > Package: systemd-sysv
 > Version: 215-5+b1
 > Severity: important
 >
 > At shutdown or reboot time, after X dies, the screen is just black. I 
see no updates.
 > I see no status. No nothing. This was not the case with sysvinit (as 
each service was
 > stopped, status was displayed). Is this normal under sytemd? (Should 
it be?)
 >
 > I've had my system hang during shutdown but have no idea how to fix it.
 >
 > John
 >
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: jessie/sid
 > APT prefers testing-updates
 > APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
 > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 >
 > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
 > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
 >
 > Versions of packages systemd-sysv depends on:
 > ii systemd 215-5+b1
 >
 > systemd-sysv recommends no packages.
 >
 > systemd-sysv suggests no packages.
 >
 > -- no debconf information
 >
 >