How to shutdown from yaft?

[oimaasi]

This may sound stupid, but I sincerely want to get some suggestion for this problem.
Normally, when in Linux console, I would type something like sudo shutdown now to turn off my computer, and it will show a bunch of system messages, then shutdown.

In yaft, after I launch the shutdown command, nothing shows up. Maybe because those system messages are not printed to the framebuffer, which is in control by the current user? In fact, if I type sudo poweroff, the machine will actually turns off itself after a few seconds. So I can confirm it is at least doing something in the background. However, my current Gentoo machine has a strange behavior which will ask for root password one more time to enter maintenance mode after the shutdown command. Nevertheless, as I mentioned above, I can see none of this message in yaft. In fact, the machine just appears dead. I can't even switch to tty2-6. Every time I have to long press the power button to force shutdown.

Is such behavior normal / as expected? Should I write a shutdown script to first exit yaft and then shutdown? How the developer shutdown his machine?
Thank you.

[uobikiemukot]

yaft takes the controll of VT switches and set the VT mode to be graphics at startup, this is the reason that you cannot see system message output to /dev/console while shutting down.

There are several solutions:

1. set FORCE_TEXT_MODE = true in conf.h
2. use shutdown or poweroff commands after exiting yaft
3. switch to another tty (not controlled by yaft) and shutdown

[oimaasi]

Thank you for the suggestions.
The set FORCE_TEXT_MODE = true method solves my problem.