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

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Sep 4 19:53:40 BST 2019


On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:43:33 -0800 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
> 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?
> 

> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> Your workaround works fine for me, thank you very much :D


Which display manager are you using?
Should we re-assign this bug report accordingly?
With gdm3 this seems to work fine.

Michael

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