update-manager no longer has a cancel or close button if it prompts for restart

Bug #1043646 reported by Rocko
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

If update-manager decides a restart is required, it no longer gives you the option of closing it so you can reboot manually later.

The workaround is to do 'ps xa|grep update' and then kill the update-manager program, but this is a pain.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.170
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 30 13:58:20 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1345929532'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'731'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'738'
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :
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Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote :

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1033226, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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