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

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Sep 04 2019, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 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?
>> 
>> 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?

Sorry, it has been 5 years. I have lost all context on this bug and
probably don't have the system anymore.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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