When I reboot I get a fresh login screen for several seconds? before the reboot starts

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 25/08/2024 14:22, Robert Heller wrote:
>> You may be seeing an old memory page from the login screen which is not
>> wiped by the reboot code... And then after some time gets replaced by
>> whatever is being drawn on it.
> Actually not. I've seen this on other Linux systems. What is happening is the
> shutdown process stops/kills *user* processes, which means that a logged in
> user is logged out, that causes the xdm-ish process puts up a login screen (or
> for a non-gui system, the *getty process reverts to a console login prompt).
> This was generally more appearent in the olden days with slower systems (that
> took longer to complete the shutdown process).  As the op says, the login
> screen is quickly replaced with the shutdown/reboot process -- the xdm-ish
> or *getty process gets killed, etc.

A good explanation. And indeed in any case, harmless.

Gilles
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