On Monday, August 11th, 2025 at 5:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On 2025-08-11 at 07:23, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I installed Debian 13 "Trixie" + KDE Plasma, And when I shutdown or > > reboot I get this message, > > > > > Broadcast message from user@hostname $TIME > > > This system will now shutdown/reboot. > > > > How do I Disable It? > > > How are you initiating the shutdown or reboot?
I am Initiating the shutdown/reboot by going in KDE plasma's application launcher and clicking on shutdown/reboot > > How does the message appear? > At appears before shutting down. > Why is it appearing problematic? > Doesn't look good. takes extra sec to shutdown/reboot. > > In my case, I shut down by exiting the GUI, logging out in the terminal, > logging back in as root, and running 'shutdown -h now' or 'shutdown -r > now'. In that case, I do see this message, but as there is only the one > user (root) logged in at the time - and the system is about to shut down > anyway - I don't consider it a problem; the shutdown process immediately > proceeds. > > If I wanted to eliminate the message in that context, I would add '-Q' > to the arguments I pass to shutdown: 'shutdown -hQ now' should carry out > the shutdown without presenting that message. > > > I suspect that you probably are not initiating shutdown from a similarly > non-graphical environment, so it will probably not be practical for you > to just add a command-line argument to the shutdown-initiating command. > I also suspect that the reason you consider it a problem is that your > GUI is somehow presenting the message in a pop-up alert dialog, which > must be clicked on to be dismissed. No It appear right after all the GUI stuff is gone but before shutdown. > > In either case, you would need to investigate what it is that the GUI > method you are using to initiate shutdown is actually doing on the > backend, and figure out how to pass the equivalent argument in that > backend invocation. (There is a nonzero possibility that the backend is > literally an invocation of shutdown, exactly as I do manually - but with > modern desktop environments as the context, I would not want to bet on > that.) > There are few links I find regarding this topic and It is said to be introduced with systemd v 251. Thanks.
