Bug#1110221: release-notes: Desktop restarts during upgrade

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Am 2. August 2025 17:14:52 MESZ schrieb Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>:
>On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 02:58:19PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2025, 16:31 Guillermo Torres Zamora, <
>> torreszamoraguillermo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:51:36 +0100 Justin B Rye
>> > <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >  > Guillermo Torres Zamora wrote:
>> >
>> >  > 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.
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> Cinnamon desktop on Xorg and I do have install needrestart, which I
>> > forgot about, so it's probably that.
>> >
>> 
>> should the release-notes tell people to do something to needrestart to
>> prevent this happening?  or is this a bug in needsrestart?
>
>needrestart in the default config prompts what should be restarted. 
>I doubt intended behaviour of needrestart qualifies as a bug, and 
>it's users need to remember they have it.

At some time we had the recommendation, to start the upgrade from virtual console, not from X.
Maybe we need that to come back ....

I personally still do it like this.


Holger



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