Shutting down the computer used to show me information about the computer shutting down (i.e. the info from the init.d stop scripts). It doesn't any more, which defeats the point of the info from the init.d stop scripts :)
Typing reboot from gnome-terminal doesn't seem to work either (logged in as root in the gui....)
if you press ctrl-alt-fN where fN is f1 through f12 does it show up on any of the vts? if so, which one?
VT7 on my machine (just pushing power button at kdm login screen) is where the messages are displayed. Seems to get switched to VT1 after X gets killed. Is this really a gdm issue? Seems like some other component needs to handle this. upstart owns /sbin/shutdown which is what is getting run by acpid when the power button is pressed.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Seeing this as well. Getting switched to a VT1 mingetty while shutdown messages continue on VT7.
This bug appears to be a duplicate of bug 439699, no? Or vice-versa (looking at the bug open-date).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 439699 ***