Bug#1110221: release-notes: Desktop restarts during upgrade
Hi Justin,
Am 3. August 2025 09:23:23 MESZ schrieb Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>:
>Holger Wansing wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>Unfortunately if this was GNOME's killing-spree mode, being logged in
>"outside" the graphical session wouldn't help, because these days with
>desktop environment processes running as a big mess of independent
>services instead of all being children of a window manager, logind
>doesn't try to distinguish. Under at least some circumstances (one of
>them being if the option KillUserProcesses is set to "Yes", which has
>at times been the upstream default), restarting GNOME sprays userspace
>with kill signals to ensure no VT logins or cronjobs or detached tmux
>sessions survive.
Wow, this is getting way to complicated for me.
I'm out here...
Holger
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