A security update has just been applied to my system for openssl, and the 'reboot required' message just popped on my desktop. I looked to see why this was, and found the following code in the libssl3 postinst:
# Here we issue the reboot notification for upgrades and
# security updates. We do want services to be restarted when we
# update for a security issue, but planned by the sysadmin, not
# automatically.
# Only issue the reboot notification for servers; we proxy this by
# testing that the X server is not running (LP: #244250)
if ! pidof /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg > /dev/null && [ -x /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required ]; then
/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required
fi
Now, AFAIK this is the only package that interfaces with notify-reboot-required but omits the notification on desktops, so that seems to be an inconsistent policy; but even if we thought that was the correct policy to apply, the above check for a desktop is not because it doesn't match in the case the user is running Xwayland, which most users not using the nvidia driver will be doing now by default.
Also, this is now inside a block that checks for the presence of needrestart, which is part of the server seed; so in effect this notification now *never* fires on servers, it *only* fires on desktops.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu May 5 05:39:06 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-23 (863 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: openssl
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-15 (19 days ago)
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