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Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

[SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

Hi,

I recently installed Arch for the first time and yes it is a great distro.:D

I'm running Gnome and this is the problem: everytime I shut down the computer X stops and I see virtual console 1 with a login prompt. I have to manually switch to vc 7 to see the shutdown messages ("Sending Sigterm to processes" etc.). So I don't know if this is a Gnome problem or what else is causing this behaviour. Any ideas? It is a small problem, yes. But I would feel better if i can get this fixed.:)

thx in advance

Last edited by Urfaust (2009-02-01 19:35:50)

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

I don't have any shutdown messages at all, I wonder why.

Last edited by ahcaliskan (2009-01-30 23:53:40)

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

Any ideas?

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 413

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

That's strange. I'm using GDM and whenever I reboot or halt the computer, messages are displayed below the login prompt in VT1.

Maxa

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Registered: 2008-11-30

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

Switching to e.g. tty5 at the end of the boot process can cause those shutdown messages to be displayed in tty5. Maybe it has something to do with how gdm is started... try "inittab method" instead of starting gdm daemon from rc.conf (or vice versa)?

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

Maybe I should mention that I had Slim installed before...But some things won't work correct in Gnome without gdm and so I replaced Slim with gdm.

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

Switching to e.g. tty5 at the end of the boot process can cause those shutdown messages to be displayed in tty5. Maybe it has something to do with how gdm is started... try "inittab method" instead of starting gdm daemon from rc.conf (or vice versa)?

O_o
That's it! Switched to inittab method and now it works. Don't know what is 'wrong' with the daemon method but nevermind....Thx.:)

Lazer

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Registered: 2007-08-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

I don't have any shutdown messages at all, I wonder why.

I don't have shutdown messages either?? Does anyone know why??? I just got a blank screen and after a few seconds it just powers off...

ahcaliskan

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

did you try starting xorg from /etc/inittab instead of /etc/rc.conf?

xlq

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Registered: 2009-08-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

I've had this problem on multiple distributions. Thanks for telling me about inittab - it worked!

Before, I edited /etc/rc.d/slim or /etc/rc.d/gdm (or previously, /etc/init.d/gdm ) and added:

ACTIVE_VT=$(/usr/bin/fgconsole)
# ... code to stop gdm/slim here
/usr/bin/chvt "$ACTIVE_VT"

which stopped working with SLiM, for some reason, so I then changed the chvt line to:

sh -c "sleep 4 ; /usr/bin/chvt \"$ACTIVE_VT\"" &

fushunpoon

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From: London

Registered: 2009-09-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

I'm currently using the inittab method and messages still go to tty7 instead of tty1 :S
What determines what tty the messages are shown on?

Last edited by fushunpoon (2010-01-23 13:18:54)

DeletedUser210616

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Re: [SOLVED] Shutdown Messages on tty7 instead of tty1

some times they are on tty 1 and sometimes they are on tty 7... wtf?