No status messages on restart

[Ron Yorston]

Jim Dever <jdever at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>For some reason whenever I restart Fedora 9 I don't get the normal 
>status messages during shutdown that I got with F8.  I get the standard 
>runlevel 3 login screen.  It pauses and finally says "Restarting..." and 
>restarts.

You should be able to see the messages by using Alt-F7 to switch to the
virtual terminal where they're displayed.

It's a known bug:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439699

Ron