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update-manager-core package

do-release-upgrade has confusing message about restarting

Bug #155554 reported by Mary Gardiner
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager-core

Towards the end of upgrading from feisty to gutsy, I am told this:

System upgrade is complete.

Restart required
To fully ugprade, please restart

I am then asked:

Continue [yN]

It is unclear whether answering 'y' will automatically restart the system or not at this point (and in fact since I REALLY do not want to restart this system, I am going to have to leave the prompt hanging there for a few days until I can be right in front of the machine in case it does restart). The description should be explicit here about which answer, if any, will automatically restart the system.

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Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote :

hmm probably you're right in the sense that is not clearly stated which one would restart the system. But reading through it, to me Y is the option to restart the system and N no.

Maybe this is not a real bug??

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Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) wrote : Re: [Bug 155554] Re: do-release-upgrade has confusing message about restarting

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007, SEAQ - Andres Mujica wrote:
> hmm probably you're right in the sense that is not clearly stated which
> one would restart the system. But reading through it, to me Y is the
> option to restart the system and N no.

I genuinely cannot tell. If I was for some reason forced to guess, I
suppose I'd agree with you, but I am not certain enough to select either
option. Therefore, for me, this message is genuinely confusing and
unhelpful and will prevent my completing the upgrade for some time.

> Maybe this is not a real bug??

I'd argue rather that it isn't a *critical* bug. But it is a UI bug,
unless I am uniquely bad at interpreting these kinds of statements.

In general, if what you're doing is presenting a choice between
restarting the system and not, this would be best put as "restart the
system now [yN]?" (with some preceeding explanation) as opposed to "some
talk about restarting the system" followed by "Continue [unspecified
action/process that might or might not be restarting the system] [yN]?"

On the other hand if you're *not* asking about restarting the system,
then it's unhelpful to have talk about restarting the system and then
ask "Continue [something else entirely] [yN]?" because it's hard to work
out what the something else might be.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I changed the text to read:

Restart required
To finish the upgrade, a restart is required.
If you select 'y' the system will be restarted.
Restart the system now [yN]

Changed in update-manager-core:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Fixed in 1:0.87.5 in hardy

Changed in update-manager-core:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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