Package: sddm Version: 0.14.0-4 Severity: normal PID 1 is sysvinit instead of systemd. When shutting down the system via KDEs menue or with "shutdown -h now" or "halt", sddm switches to tty1. The shutdown messages cannot be seen there, as it is the case with other display managers. It took a while until I recognise that the messages are on tty7. This makes no sense when sddm switches to tty1 on shutdown.
So please move the shutdown messages to tty1 when running without systemd or prevent sddm to switch to tty1 on shutting down, so that they can be seen on tty7. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages sddm depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6 ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5dbus5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5network5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5qml5 5.7.1-2+b2 ii libqt5quick5 5.7.1-2+b2 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libsystemd0 232-25 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.12-1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.7.1-2+b2 ii x11-common 1:7.7+19 ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+19 Versions of packages sddm recommends: ii libpam-systemd 232-25 ii sddm-theme-debian-maui [sddm-theme] 0.14.0-4 Versions of packages sddm suggests: pn libpam-kwallet5 <none> -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm