software updater asking me to restart my computer, no way of closing dialog

[Colin Ian King]

I ran updates today on my Quantal 12.10 dev box and I got a dialogue box that states:

"Please restart the computer to begin using your updated software."

and a restart button. There is also a minimize button at the top of the dialogue box.

I'm filing a bug because I think we should have the option to close this dialogue box - I either have to minimize it (and it hangs around) or reboot my machine (which I don't want to do right away). I suspect that getting a kernel upgrade has triggered this request to start my computer.

We really don't have to restart the computer right away and we are falling into a Windows like mentality here - "do your updates and reboot". Please no, this is not a good idea. Give us users a choice when to reboot, don't force it on us because we pulled in a kernel update.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1033226, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.