Bug#769607: systemd does not show shutdown or reboot messages with systemd.show_status=true

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:17:59 +0100 Szymon Weihs <szyna21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I'm doing reboot or shutdown from graphical environment (systemctl
> reboot/poweroff), my screen turns off immediately so I can't see any messages
> provided with option systemd.show_status=true.
> If I shutdown my computer from console (for example tty1) everything works as
> expected - I can see all messages included the last "Reached target shutdown"
> and then the screen turns off along with the computer.

As a workaround, does it help if you add

ExecStop=/bin/chvt 1

to the [Service] section of /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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