In a freshly installed instance of F43 Workstation, trying to power off when there are pending updates will, as expected, show the tick box to “apply pending updates” or whatever the exact phrasing is. Ticking the box and then pressing the button to power off leads to nothing happening, and simply d…

Looks like a fix has been pushed! [image] manager: Allow gnome-shell to change logout type (47e726c4) · Commits · GNOME... gnome-shell changes the logout type from shutdown to reboot whenever it triggers an offline update (i.e. via PackageKit). The system reboots, applies the update offl…

Fedora 43 Workstation won't shut down if "apply pending updates" is selected

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estaats (Eric Staats) November 2, 2025, 1:38am 3

I’m experiencing the same issue. Fedora 43 Workstation: "Install pending updates" checkbox not working properly on Gnome's "Power Off..." dialog

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Fedora 43 Workstation won't shut down if "apply pending updates" is selected

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