"Restart Now" informational applet does not work

[Ambricka]

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

About a week ago I upgraded to jaunty jackalope alpha 1.
The only "big" issue so far is that when an upgrade marks the system as in need of restart and the "restart needed"-notifier shows, nothing happens when I click the "Restart Now" button.
Manual restart via userswitcher-applet does work.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

I just experienced this error while updating my Jaunty virtualbox installation.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This is still present in the Jaunty daily from Jan 6, 2009 (shortly before alpha 3ish)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

From one of the duplicates, this message gets printed to the console:

** (update-notifier:3430): CRITICAL **: request_reboot: assertion `client != NULL' failed

It seems that the call to gnome_master_client() returns NULL, so this might not be an update-notifier bug

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Perhaps update-notifer should be migrated to use the dbus interface to gnome-session for terminating the session, seeing as libgnomeui is basically deprecated and the rest of Gnome has been migrated to not depend on it.

I don't mind having a go at writing a patch to do that.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

gnome_master_client() returns NULL because gnome_program_init() is no longer called, due to this change:

  * do not use GnomeClient anymore on all places where this is
    possible - we can not remove it entirely (yet) because
    reboot.c depends on it to do a cross desktop session exit
    request

So, we could temporarily revert some of that change and call gnome_program_init() again, at least for the time being.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I've written a patch so that gnome_program_init() is called again, and uploaded it in to my branch for review.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.75.7

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update-notifier (0.75.7) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * src/hal.c:
    - fix incorrect capitalization (LP: #186594)

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * src/update-notifier.c:
    - Revert an earlier change to call gnome_program_init()
      again. reboot.c still depends on this (LP: #302326)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:59:20 +0100