How to shutdown with automatic updates in progress?

[minty_mint]

Hi everyone,

I enabled all the automation update and maintenance options inside update manager and in general, it's working like a charm. This is an outstanding feature that no other distro really seems to offer, I totally love it!

However, sometimes the running installation process will prevent the system from shutting down, meaning the GUI will only offer suspend mode. There is also no progress visible to the user apart from the update icon, which in this case tells me that another installation if already running if I press "install updates".

I understand that there are some crucial tasks that cannot be interrupted, but it looks like the lock persists until all the packages are upgraded, not just the essential ones. So the only option I see is to manually wait and check periodically if the shutdown is available again, which can take a long time and seems very inefficent for a modern OS.

Is there any better possibility to this? An automatic, queued shutdown option after the updater finished would be perfect. I would also be thankful for the possibility to cancel the installation process at the next non-critical package.

Regards!

[DJ55]

Welcome to the forum. There's probably a script that could do this (there's an old example at https://kotbcorp.blogspot.com/2009/06/s ... buntu.html that might still work but would need to be tested) but the easiest way would be to simply enter a command to schedule a shutdown to occur in an hour or two. Here's an example that's set to 60 minutes:

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shutdown -h +60

You can pick whatever set of minutes you think is appropriate. And, once you find the time period you like, you could make this command into a desktop launcher if you're going to use it a lot.