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NINJ4Z

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Registered: 2014-05-02

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Shutting down jumps from tty7 to tty1

Can someone explain to me why when I issue a poweroff command or reboot, my screen jumps from being in tty7 where xorg defaults to tty1 where it briefly show the login prompt and then shuts down.

fsckd

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Re: Shutting down jumps from tty7 to tty1

Xorg doesn't default to tty7. How did you set it up?

I think tty1 is where systemd shows its messages. Do those appear for shutdown?

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NINJ4Z

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Registered: 2014-05-02

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Re: Shutting down jumps from tty7 to tty1

Xorg doesn't default to tty7. How did you set it up?

I think tty1 is where systemd shows its messages. Do those appear for shutdown?

Sorry it turns out my login manager was starting vt7. I reconfigured it to start at tty1. is there a way of clearing tty1 when x is stopped? I'm trying to go for a clean look, I finally got the boot sequence to be silent after much trial and error but the shutdown sequence is exposing yet more output I'd rather not see.