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I'm running ubuntu 13.04 on my Thinkpad T430. Whenever I shutdown, a terminal message which seems (at least, in part) to be related to Virtualbox, but I'm not sure:

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Is there a way to hide these messages during shutdown? They do not appear during boot.

What I've tried:

I edited my /etc/init/rc.conf file and commented out console output like this:

# rc - System V runlevel compatibility
#
# This task runs the old System V-style rc script when changing between
# runlevels.

description "System V runlevel compatibility"
author      "Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>"

emits deconfiguring-networking
emits unmounted-remote-filesystems

start on runlevel [0123456]
stop on runlevel [!$RUNLEVEL]

export RUNLEVEL
export PREVLEVEL

#console output
env INIT_VERBOSE

task

exec /etc/init.d/rc $RUNLEVEL

This resulted in a shorter but still present terminal message:

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I also tried running a shutdown from terminal simply running sudo init 0 but the acpid: exiting message persists.

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  • Oh no! Now everyone knows my real name! :) –  Oct 09 '13 at 15:04
  • What happens if you comment out `env INIT_VERBOSE`? – terdon Oct 09 '13 at 16:43
  • @terdon No difference, same message (the shorter one in the post). –  Oct 09 '13 at 16:56
  • Maybe try `mesg n` from [this question](http://superuser.com/questions/153649/how-to-disable-broadcast-messages-on-my-linux-session) – beroe Oct 09 '13 at 18:28
  • @beroe No change there either, unless I'm doing it wrong. I just run `mesg n` in terminal and that's it? –  Oct 09 '13 at 18:34
  • Yes, I would expect that after you type `mesg n` the next shutdown from that terminal would not show the broadcast message, but I didn't test it. – beroe Oct 09 '13 at 18:39
  • @beroe Yes, then I did it correctly. The message still displayed, though. –  Oct 09 '13 at 18:40
  • Another suggestion I saw is using `sudo init 0` to start the halt... – beroe Oct 09 '13 at 18:43
  • @beroe I prefer using the shutdown prompt, but if a terminal command it the only way to accomplish it, then I guess that will have to do. I'm new to linux and I'm starting to see a pattern when it comes to simple tasks not having a GUI... –  Oct 09 '13 at 18:45

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One option is to use sudo init 0 in initiate the shutdown.

Your next project could be to figure out how to assign this command to a button or menu item...!

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  • When I try `sudo init 0`, I still get the terminal message `acpid: exiting`. –  Oct 09 '13 at 19:18
  • Does it show up if you do `sudo init 0 2> /dev/null`? (Perhaps not advised since any other messages won't be shown.) Whatever command you end up finding could probably be packaged into a menu item and certainly aliased to a short command. – beroe Oct 09 '13 at 19:24
  • Yes, still shows up then, too. –  Oct 09 '13 at 19:26
  • Sorry, then. I've reached the end of the rope! – beroe Oct 09 '13 at 19:37