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Is there a way to understand WHY exactly my Ubuntu system wants a restart? I'm getting this message without much additional context in my banner on logging in over SSH:

*** System restart required ***
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The packages driving the need to reboot can be listed by running this command

cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs