When shutting down the system gdm doesn't switch to tty1 to show the shutdown messages. Instead following message is shown on tty7 or something: Broadcast message from root (tty1) (Wed Feb 23 08:10:50 2011): The system is going down for system halt NOW! Pressing Alt+F1 shows tty with the expected shutdown messages. I tried all gdm versions which are currently in the portage tree (2.20.11, 2.28.2-r1, 2.32.0). All versions show the same behavior. I also tried to add CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 to the kernel line in the grub.conf file but had no success with that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install gnome + gdm 2. Reboot or shutdown your system emerge --info: Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=amdfam10 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr audiofile bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdinstall cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus device-mapper dga dri dvd dvdr encode fax ffmpeg firefox firefox3 flac fortran gcrypt gdbm gdu geoip gif gnome gnutls gpm gtk hddtemp iconv icq imagemagick iphone ipod java java6 jpeg lame lua mad mmx mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png pppd python rar rdp readline samba scanner semantic-desktop session sndfile sse sse2 ssl sysfs taglib tcpd templates tiff truetype udev unicode usb vcd vnc vorbis weather-metar weather-xoap xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
This is an old problem, but don't know how to solve it
Yeah I realzed it too. It really seems to be a very old bug that nobody has fixed yet. That's weired somehow because a lot of gnome users should have the same problem for at least a year now. I hope there's a fix soon.
Just out of curiosity, do other ?dm programs switch? Maybe it's an X thing rather than a ?dm thing? I'd never noticed the issue, possibly because I rarely shutdown, and when I do I frequently walk away.
(In reply to comment #3) > Just out of curiosity, do other ?dm programs switch? Maybe it's an X thing > rather than a ?dm thing? I'd never noticed the issue, possibly because I > rarely shutdown, and when I do I frequently walk away. > Yeah kdm works without problems.
Sometimes it works also with gdm sometimes not. I didn't saw any correlation with anything yet.
(In reply to comment #5) > Sometimes it works also with gdm sometimes not. I didn't saw any correlation > with anything yet. > Yes, I experience the same for years. I thought the problem was related with some passed change on gnome-session... but don't know much more :-/
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Sometimes it works also with gdm sometimes not. I didn't saw any correlation > > with anything yet. > > > > Yes, I experience the same for years. > > I thought the problem was related with some passed change on gnome-session... > but don't know much more :-/ > That's exactly the same what I've been told by other users. I mean the same behavior for such a long time and nobody cares about it? How sick is that?
Well, I didn't investigate more the issue as I use gdm-2.20 with newer gnome releases, then, I thought it wasn't affecting to latest gdm version.
I switched from gdm to SLiM now (Still have gnome!). I got the same problems with SLiM as with gdm. As I said KDE with kdm works. There I see the shutdown messages. Is it possibly a bug in gnome?
It could also point to gnome-session :-/
Can anyone check with masked gdm versions in the tree or gnome overlay?
In original report I see user tried with some 2.32 versions... if this is still valid with latest gdm, I would report this to upstream also -> bugzilla.gnome.org
Can anybody using gnome3 from overlay and still suffering this report to upstream?
I have been having the same problem with gdm-3.0.4-r1
(In reply to comment #14) > I have been having the same problem with gdm-3.0.4-r1 Can you report this to upstream please? Thanks a lot
(In reply to comment #15) > (In reply to comment #14) > > I have been having the same problem with gdm-3.0.4-r1 > > Can you report this to upstream please? Thanks a lot Did anybody reported it? As a side note, I have seen the way gnome-session calls poweroff in bug 388701 works "properly" as it shutdowns gdm properly, showing a red message (that is dropped by gdm) and gdm doesn't try to reload. Would be nice to know what command is executing gnome-session in that case as it could help to solve this issue also ;)
If people can check with Gnome3 and gdm-3 and it's still valid, please report to upstream. Thanks
I can confirm that I don't have these problems with gdm-3.2.1 AND the ati open source drivers with kernel mode settings enabled. It doesn't seem to work with the closed source driver.
this is now obsolete with gnome 3.8
