There is no way to cancel restart when installing updates

Bug #1247002 reported by kolen
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1033226: No close option, only restart. Edit Remove
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Sometimes update-manager displays "The computer needs to restart to finish installing updates" and there is only "Restart" button, and no window close button.

The only way to avoid restart is to minimize the window and keep it open (or to kill update-manager, not tried it).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.194.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 1 11:46:56 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1383290388'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'711'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'740'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-23 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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kolen (incredible-angst) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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