I think you're in the wrong forums - this is a RetroPie specific forum, which is not related with neither of the projects you're mentioning (openelec/retrorangepi).

@stuckinthe90s said in No boot/shutdown text on safe boot or shutdown:

One concerning new detail is that the boot/shutdown text no longer shows at boot up or shutdown. Even when I shutdown or reboot from the command line with

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What RetroPie version did you have before the upgrade ?