Ubuntu reboots instead of powering off if a software updates exists

I am not able to load the screenshot attached here, can you please try attaching it again?

Sure.

Could you attach it with a filename with non utf chars? the issue where it can't be opened is bug #1946762

Thanks. The messages in question do not come from either update-notifier or update-manager as far as I can see (in particular, the source string for 'the system will...' is not present in either source package). I am not sure which package is actually presenting this dialog.

In fact, I just searched my system and found these strings in gnome-shell after all, so reassigning back to there.

As far as I can say, the dialog itself works as intended. The bug is, that the Ubuntu box is rebooting instead of turninging off.

Well, it may or may not be a bug in gnome-shell which implements the dialog; but it is definitely not a bug in update-notifier which is not involved in the communication between gnome-shell and systemd. It is likely a bug in gnome-shell signalling the wrong thing to systemd in this situation.

From the screenshot in comment #5 and the gnome-shell (v40) source code:

  Установить обновления и перезапустить

  Система будет автоматически выключена через %d секунд

  [✓] Установить отложенные обновления ПО

Note that's two major releases behind what is in jammy proposed right now so we should retest with gnome-shell 42 when it's ready.

the issue there is that packagekit is proposing offline updates which it shouldn't do on Ubuntu

Still seems low priority. Not many people will care if on some rare occasion they have to wait for a reboot before powering off.

This is *not* a packagekit issue. There are flavours upgrading using packagekit, not everyone uses update-manager. It's either gnome-shell or gnome-session or something that should not be reacting to this.

Though on the other hand I don't really want flavours to do offline upgrades, but I don't think we have a clear-cut policy on that. Either way, removing the feature inside PackageKit might break some flavours, so seeing as we are past feature freeze, fixing that in the frontend would be less invasive.

Was it a change on the packagekit side this cycle? The shell has been having the same behaviour of displaying the dialog if offline updates are enabled for a long time

Fixing the statement from the previous post, the feature had been not working and was fixed in
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/83c6b2a

So yes, it's a regression and we need to decide on the best way forward

Commit 83c6b2a was released already in gnome-shell 3.37.1

@Daniel, do you have any idea what changed that the option starting to show only now on Ubuntu sessions?

No I am not familiar with this feature. I also can't seem to trigger it in jammy (reported in impish). Even when I have updates awaiting installation it just powers off when told to.

I wonder if you need to install gnome-software Deb maybe.

I can say, that I have this dialog only if I have a flatpak updates, not apt updates.

I'm not sure we should assign this to ubuntu-22.04-beta when it's only ever been observed on 21.10.

it's not, we had some team members reporting it on current J serie during our sprint

Alright, tagged as jammy too. But unless I missed something this should be set to Low priority because it's only a minor annoyance having to reboot again before shutting down.