[arch-general] I have to switch back to tty1 for systemd to shutdown the pc

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Thu Jan 17 20:57:22 EST 2013


On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:46:48 +0100
"solsTiCe d'Hiver" <solstice.dhiver at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> Since latest update of gnome 3.4, I can't login through gdm because,
> then, I have no single glyph or font displayed on my desktop in menu
> or application (but not the qt ones)
> So, I found the work around to switch to tty2 and login and run startx
> and all is fine in my desktop. The fonts are back. No idea what this
> bug is about !
> 
> Anyway, my problem is: When I shutdown the PC from gnome desktop, I
> end up on tty2 console, and nothing is happening there i.e. no
> shutdown.
> I have to switch back manually to tty1 so that the shutdown procedure
> begins or continues.
> 
> Any idea why systemd fails like that ? or gnome ?

So, you have 2 X servers running? In this case, what is the tty the 2nd one
is running at? 

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