Bug#1110221: release-notes: Desktop restarts during upgrade
On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:51:36 +0100 Justin B Rye
<justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guillermo Torres Zamora wrote:
> > I run apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> >
> > * What was the outcome of this action?
> > The desktop restarted at the end closing everything but I was not
> > warned in the release notes only in the terminal itself
> >
> > * What outcome did you expect instead?
> > Probably the same but with a warning in the release notes
>
> This doesn't match what I've seen in any of my (unofficial) tests,
> including the one where I was specifically checking for this on a
> default GNOME-on-Wayland setup: the old session was left running while
> I finished tidying up after the upgrade. What desktop environment are
> you talking about? (And what "warning" did it give in the terminal?)
>
> This can be triggered if you specifically tell needrestart to restart
> processes that are usually left un-restarted, but the package
> needrestart probably isn't even installed on your machine.
> --
> JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
> sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
>
>
Cinnamon desktop on Xorg and I do have install needrestart, which I
forgot about, so it's probably that.
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