Upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04 hides service restart message
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I performed an upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 on the Unity desktop using update-manager. The process started as expected and downloaded all the packages but stopped near the beginning of the install process stating it was preparing libc6. It was only because I expanded the terminal that I notices it required a few services to restart for the installation to continue. This prompt came up twice but this would be a massive problem for anyone unfamiliar with the process, i.e. a non technical person using the system. What should really happen is that a GTK prompt should come up with a restart or cancel button, not a terminal dialog like it currently does. Either that or it should just restart these services anyway without prompt as the user should not really be using the system at the point of upgrade anyway. They are hardly critical services anyway (cups and cron as I remember).
| Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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 979661, 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.