Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:26:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the
> > > > upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid
> > > > to reboot it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm... if you got a new kernel image you need to restart the machine to
> > > use it (untill then it's running with the older version of the kernel)
> > > Apart from that there shouldn't be any need to reboot, as I wrote before
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Joris
> >
> > I knew about the services and kernel part, but wasn't sure about libc,
> > as it's a pretty important part of a system. BTW, if you upgrade the
> > same kernel you are strongly encouraged to reboot ASAP, because of
> > module dependencies.
>
> And if you use lilo to set up bootablility, you'd better run it *before*
> you reboot; otherwise it will not be able to find the new kernel. And
> the old one will have been replaced, if it's really just a bugfix of the
> same kernel version.
>
> Anybody know about grub in this context?
If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither
grub nor lilo need the update. But it doesn't hurt. Unless you changed
menu.lst without reading/understanding the instructions inside.
Andrei
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