[Bug 39146] Re: Reason for required restarts unclear

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

This is fixed in R. The redesigned Software Updater tells you in advance
if any of the selected updates have flagged that they will need a
restart to finish installing. And if you expand the dialog to reveal the
list of updates, it contains a column with an icon for exactly which
updates require a restart. If any update requires a restart but does not
tell you in advance, please report a bug on that package and tag it "xb-
restart-required". <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag
=xb-restart-required>

If you don't want updates ever to require a restart to finish
installing, then work to get KSplice or equivalent integrated into every
kernel, glibc, and similar Ubuntu update. It isn't a "Windows ... clone"
thing, it's an operating system architecture thing.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to update-notifier in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39146

Title:
  Reason for required restarts unclear

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The 'restart required' icon seems to appear much too often for my
  liking. Worse yet, it doesn't even tell you what package is it that
  requires restart or have a GUI option to remove the reminder or remind
  later. Also, to my understanding a kernel upgrade is the only thing
  that _requires_ restart. It should say 'recommended', explain why and
  still not appear as often as it does -- I'm not running Windows and I
  certainly don't want a clone.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/39146/+subscriptions