On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:11:20PM +0200, Reinhard Sy wrote: > Am Montag, den 24.04.2006, 13:12 +0200 schrieb Alexander Volovics: > > Choosing 'System -> Shut Down... -> Shutdown' immediately produces > > a black screen before switching off the power. No more listing of > > the shutdown tasks being performed. > > Is this deliberate? > > Is there some way of getting them back? > Yes, press the space bar This works. But whatever happened (or was done deliberately) it is not consistent. Using the other 'gui' option of shutting down, namely: 'System -> Log Out -> Shutdown' DOES show the kernel shutdown messages. So I would still like to know if this is a bug or a new 'innovation'. Alexander