In Intrepid, at least, the "System Restart Required" task bar applet
appears while in the process of updating packages (via the Update
Manager applet).
Clicking on the restart applet will prompt the user to reboot.
This is a valid bug report in that respect. This restart behavior is
dangerous.
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better.
Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be
a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the
support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but
