Public bug reported:
In Ubuntu 14.04 the update manager will pop up telling you a restart is
required for certain types of update (kernel, etc). However, it defaults to
"restart now" which is unsafe, as an accidental <return> with that pop-up in
focus will try to reboot your machine, and that might be quite unwanted at this
time.
The default should always be safe - in this case the 'later' button.
I see this has been fixed in the latests release 15.04.3 but the change has not
been back-ported to the 14.04 LTS version.
$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
Installed: 1:0.196.12
Candidate: 1:0.196.12
Version table:
*** 1:0.196.12 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:0.196.11 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
It is simple enough to fix, as shown in the diff/patch.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Patch added: "The fix back-ported from 15.04 version"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441595/+attachment/4369342/+files/fix-restart.diff
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