In Ubuntu 22.04, the needrestart command, which is part of the apt-get upgrade process in Ubuntu, by default this is set to "interactive" mode which causes the interruption of scripts.
To change this behavior, we can edit the /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf file, changing the line:
#$nrconf{restart} = 'i';
to
$nrconf{restart} = 'a'; (if we want to restart the services automatically) or $nrconf{restart} = 'l'; to simply list the services that need restart.
Another trick:
To disable "Pending kernel upgrade" via command line:
sudo vim /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf
then uncomment this line
#$nrconf{kernelhints} = -1;
