Bug#168189: libc6: Consider restarting 'samba' on upgrade
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:05:33PM +0000, Matthew Astley wrote:
> Hopefully straightforward: the 'samba' server broke when I upgraded
> libc6, and mended again when I restarted it.
I don't use Samba, but I'm curious:
Did existing connections stop working, or just new connections? If just
new connections, does restarting samba drop those connections?
What might be worthshile is having another detection section that has
something like:
The following services are *known* to be broken after this upgrade: xdm,
samba. (autodetected based on install). You must stop them and start
them yourself. If I were to do it, it could cause data loss.
> <pie location="sky">Shouldn't individual packages have their own flag
> for whether they need restarting on libc upgrades?</pie>
Most glibc upgrades don't cause this grief, only major changes in NSS. I
don't think asking packages to have a flag for an upgrade every 2 or 3
years makes sense.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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