If you haven't fixed it, then yes, it's still an issue. The bug was
found in Maverick. I don't have the time or inclination to test later
versions of the distribution, but either way you need to fix it in
Maverick, and perhaps look at your other kernel packages to see if they
need fixing as well.
FWIW, this bug doesn't need kernel logs or anything else, it's a pretty
straightforward and simple issue once you look at it, and the problem
lies solely in the kernel package scripts (the postinst script), it's
not a runtime problem with the kernel itself.
I'll restate the original description in simpler terms if that would
help:
How Things Work Today: ---
The kernel postinst script executes /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-
reboot-required if it exists, to notify that a reboot is required due to
kernel upgrade.
That script comes from the package update-notifier. update-notifier
(among perhaps other things) creates the file /var/run/reboot-required,
which is the documented hook by which other services and scripts detect
that a reboot is required (such as the dynamic /etc/motd stuff, or any
kind of administrative scripts the systems admin might write).
The Problem: ---
update-notifier is a graphical X-windows package, and is not normally
installed on headless servers. Thus on headless servers, /var/run
/reboot-required is never created when kernels are installed/upgraded.
The simple fix is to have the kernel postinst script create the /var/run
/reboot-required file itself, in addition to launching the update-
notifier hook.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Tags removed: needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
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Reboot notification should not require X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666348
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