Nope, you should be fine. Any queued actions should take place at your next login. If you did a clean shutdown (didn't press and hold power), I can't see where things could go wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dazed_75" To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:54 PM Subject: Updates Restart and Login question >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. > > -- > Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only > animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and > what they ought to be. > - William Hazlitt > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss