Top posting since you did. That would be my expectation as well. Actually, I would have expected any updates except those requiring the restart to have happened before the shutdown and those that required the restart to have happened before actual login. That is why I was surprised the shutdown seemed to have errors. I would not have expected updates (which had been authorized) to need to be deferred until after the actual login. Yet that is the only thing I can think of that would have caused any failures and/or audible warnings. Larry On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Jason Spatafore wrote: > 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 > -- 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