I asked Scott about this privately. He said the following:
<Keybuk> it's nobody's fault
<Keybuk> that's just the way UNIX works (tm)
<Keybuk> output from initscripts goes to whatever /dev/console is at the point
the runlevel is changed
<Keybuk> if you shutdown from gdm, /dev/console will be tty7
I went on to ask him:
<kiko> Keybuk, wow, that's interesting. could we artificially switch
back from gdm to /dev/tty1 (where we boot up) when we start the shut
down process?
To which he replied:
<Keybuk> kiko: what would be the purpose?
<Keybuk> does it particularly matter which is the active VT when shutting down?
--- danilo is now known as danilo-out
<Keybuk> (not wishing to trivialise your concerns here, but it'd be a very
difficult and invasive change to force the active VT to be tty1 at the point of
runlevel change; would appear "ugly" for usplash users (they'd get a glimpse of
a getty). etc. -- I'd like to know what problem the "unusual" VT is causing
before I consider it. at the moment it's purely an oddity that the VT during
shutdown from gdm is 7, not 1)
And then added:
<Keybuk> we don't actually have shutdown messages at all in edgy or feisty
anyway
<Keybuk> so it's probably rejected for that alone :p
Me, not being one to leave a bug unclosed, promptly did so. Please
reopen if you feel you have not been served justly!
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Status: Needs Info => Rejected
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When using powerbutton to shutdown, output goes to wrong tty
https://launchpad.net/bugs/18637
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