[Bug 853045] Re: On/off button no longer goes red to indicate that a restart is necessary

[James Pursey]

The on/off button changed colour to red today to indicate a system
restart was nessary. It's much clearer now - however what was strange
was that I did the update in the morning and the button only changed
several hours later, at the very moment I launched the Ubuntu Software
center. I don't know if it's normal behaviour or not.

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Title:
  On/off button no longer goes red to indicate that a restart is
  necessary

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have noticed that after an update, if it is necessary to restart the
  computer the on/off button no longer changes colour. This means that
  the user has nothing to indicate that this is necessary until (s)he
  switches off the computer (when the message appears in the system
  menu). This could lead to people running outdated and maybe insecure
  kernels for long periods of times, which is why I have signaled this
  as a possible security issue.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 18 09:12:13 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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