Yesterday, I lost about an hour's work because of this behavior. I had been editing an audio file in Audacity, and I was going to save it. When Audacity's save-confirmation dialog appeared, I pressed Enter, not seeing that the small Restart dialog had also appeared in the corner of the screen and grabbed keyboard focus. Instead of saving my work, the computer immediately shut down and restarted. After the restart, all my work was lost.
$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350808 Title: update-manager unexpectedly restarts system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1350808/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs