Nullifying requirement to reboot after kernel update

[Tom H]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:11 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 10:04 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All that you need to do is remove the symlink or symlink
>>>> "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier" to "/dev/null" rather than to
>>>> "/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required".
>>>>
>>>> Just make a note of the latter file in case you want to restore this
>>>> functionality.
>>>>
>>> Thanks Tom, just made a 'hold' folder in the /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
>>> folder and moved the symlink there.
>>
>> You're welcome.
>
> I'm stumped now, another update came in that did not require a reboot
> however 'software updater' said I still needed to reboot from the
> previous update. Of course after the update finished the popup for 'you
> need to restart your computer to finish installing updates' was there
> and I again clicked 'remind me later'.

Check "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" for "99update-notifier" or
"99-update-notifier" (I've deleted mine but I remember that it starts
with 99).

And look at the other files there just in case.