On Sun, 18 May 2008 21:07:37 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote: > This is due to a change in the init system to upstart. Alt+F7 should > show you detailed messages. I also discovered by accident that if you do a Ctrl+Atl+F1 to get a console, and login there and run reboot or shutdown, you do see the messages.