Alas, the momentary text is not captured by this "technique" because it
appears on a new console screen, not the one from which the shutdown script
is entered.
However, by combining MagicBanana's suggestion to get a verbose startup
script, I end up in the console (only - no GUI), from which I can enter:
> script -c "sudo shutdown -h now" -a
/home/user/Documents/ShutdownBlinkies/text.txt
And then the ephemeral text appeared long enough for me to photograph it:
> * Starting ClamAV virus database updater freshclam
>Starting GNUstep distributed object mapper: gdomap.
> * speech-dispatcher disabled: edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher
> * Starting tor daemon...
> * Starting MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor
> * Starting web server apache2
> *
> * The apache2 configtest failed.
>Output of config test was:
>env: apache2ct1: No such file or directory
Another line or two relating to the actual shutdown step appeared after I
made the photograph.
Other short outputs different than this have appeared during shutdowns from
GUI, and so I still need to capture them for debugging purposes.
What's that "next" console screen's identifier so I can redirect the output
of its text to a file with the script command ?
