Updates Restart and Login question

[Dazed_75]

I am running ubuntu 8.04.1 on this machine.  Update Manager siad there
were updates available and after looking them over, I allowed them. A
restart was required and I had it do that.  Then I got busy.  I was
about to leave when I noticed the machine was waiting at the login
screen.  Since I was about to leave, I choose to shutdown from the
login screen rather than logging in.  I figured starting up later
would be just as good.

During shutdown, the machine started beeping at me like something was
wrong.  Messages flashed by rapidly but I did see the word failure
several times.  So my question is whether skipping the login on a
required restart is a bad idea???\\

BTW, I started it up again and everything seemed to go normally
including a normal login.

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