Updates Restart and Login question

[Jason Spatafore]

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" <lthielster at gmail.com>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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.
>
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