no more kernel shutdown messages?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:11:20PM +0200, Reinhard Sy wrote:

> Am Montag, den 24.04.2006, 13:12 +0200 schrieb Alexander Volovics:
 
> > Choosing 'System -> Shut Down... -> Shutdown' immediately produces
> > a black screen before switching off the power. No more listing of
> > the shutdown tasks being performed.
> > Is this deliberate?
> > Is there some way of getting them back?

> Yes, press the space bar

This works.

But whatever happened (or was done deliberately) it is not consistent.
Using the other 'gui' option of shutting down, namely:
'System -> Log Out -> Shutdown' DOES show the kernel shutdown messages.

So I would still like to know if this is a bug or a new 'innovation'.

Alexander