Shutdown listing missing

[Jim Cornette]

Ted Gladieux wrote:
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> I have upgraded two machines from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora 7.  By upgrade
>  I do not mean that I used the upgrade function in anaconda.  I
> repartitioned the hard drive and did a complete install.
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> In Fedora Core 5 (and previous Fedora releases) was used to seeing the
> various shutdown activities displayed on the console as the machine
> shuts down.  Ending with the "Power down" statement just before the
> machine turns itself off.  There are circumstances when it is very
> helpful to see this, like when the machine is taking longer than you
> expect to shutdown and you want to know why.
> 
> For one of the two machines I just upgraded this still works.  But, for
> the other it does not.  On the non-working machine, the screen simply
> goes black and stays black until the machine shuts itself off.  In
> Fedora Core 5, this machine displayed all of the shutdown activity, just
> like the other one still does, until the machine shuts itself off.
> 
> My question is, is there a configuration file somewhere that controls
> this behavior?
> 
> Did that file somehow get different content on the two machines?
> 
> If not a configuration file, what else might explain this strange behavior?
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> Ted

You can either press a key to show the messages during shutdown or 
remove the quiet parameter from grub.conf file.

You do have the shutdown choices from the menu, right?

Jim