[Bug 43681] User gets no shutdown/reboot notification

[alp]

Public bug reported:

Affects: notification-daemon (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Binary package hint: notification-daemon

On RedHat systems at our university installation, the xconsole
application pops up a GUI notification when the system is due to be
rebooted or shut down.

On Ubuntu, there is no GUI notification. The machine just reboots while
the user is in the middle of their work, without any notification that
there will be a reboot! The exception is if the user has a tty open, in
which case they will get the message:

Broadcast message from root at rover (pts/11) (Mon May  8 21:23:22 2006):

The system is going DOWN for reboot in 10 minutes!


Unfortunately, most users today don't keep an X terminal running these days, so such notifications should reach the user, perhaps via notification-daemon. An alternative might be to have some kind of egg-timer along the lines of the battery applet, but this might be too invasive/overengineering for the dapper release.

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User gets no shutdown/reboot notification
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43681