From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When rhgb is set to start on boot, all daemon start/stop messages show up on vt8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to vt1 2. press ctrl-alt-del Actual Results: The "Shutting down <daemon> [ OK ]" messages do not show. Switching to vt8 shows them. Expected Results: All the messages should appear on the current active vt. Additional info: This is not that serious but it is annoying. This also causes some confusion when rebooting/shutting down from X/GDM. The user gets a black screen with nothing more that "Sending all processes the TERM signal.." for a while, looking like the machine has frozen. Then all the "[ OK ]" messages flash for a second and the machine reboots/powers down.
Forgot: rhgb-0.16.1-1.FC3
Bug is still present in FC4. I'm not convinced this is rhgb-related as it still seems to occur in FC4 when booting without rhgb. Boot seems to leave vt8 as the console somehow. Logging in to vt1 at some stage (and maybe issuing telinit or shutdown from there) returns things to normal.
Sorry, it is rhgb related! I checked the source and did some experimenting. rhgb has changed to enable a smooth transition from graphical boot to login screen. It waits until the display manager has started before exiting. A side-effect of this is that X deems vt8 to be the terminal from which is was started, so this is where it returns on exit. Shutdown/runlevel change messages then go to vt8. (I'm not sure why the screen is blank before pressing a key. though). To return messages to vt1, I editied /etc/X11/prefdm, adding: chvt 1 after the lines shutting down rhgb. However, this will probably make the text login visible between graphical boot and login as was the case in FC1 and 2. I'm not sure if this is a "bug". It would be nice if messages were visible on shutdown instead of just a blank screen - can something be done to make them show up without a key-press, even if they are one vt8? Of course, a graphical shutdown is another alternative.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Highly suspect that this was fixed in rhgb-0.16.4-3, as the changelog reads: "kill rhgb before gdm starts to prevent weird vt switching behavior (bug 211848)" Definitely seems to address Comment 3. Bug 211848, however, is a protected bug that I am not authorized to see.