Re: reboot required after linux-image upgrade?
I have experienced what you described in your reply.
That is why I always issue the command sudo update-grub after a linux-image upgrade. I can't trust the OS to be perfect.
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> They do appear to, but in my experience, not uncommonly when running a
> dist-upgrade that includes a linux-image* upgrade something will get
> messed up about the order of events; the script will get run at the
> wrong time, and then not get re-run later when it needs to.
>
> The result, which I've seen frequently, is that the new kernel shows up
> in the GRUB boot menu, but the GRUB boot entry does not include the
> matching initrd - and as a result, that kernel will not boot.
>
> If I reboot into the previous kernel, in most - possibly all - all cases
> the needed initrd does already exist under /boot. If I then run
> 'update-grub' by hand and reboot again, the boot entry then properly
> mentions the initrd and booting that kernel works properly.
>
> I don't know what package(s) this would be a bug in, since AFAIK it
> seems to be caused by the order in which various packages get processed
> during the dist-upgrade process, not by issues in e.g. the scripts of
> any particular package; I also don't have a means of intentionally
> reproducing the problem, much less doing so on demand. That's why I've
> never reported a bug about this, but I've definitely seen it in at least
> a large fraction of kernel-image upgrades in the past.
>
> (It may or may not be relevant that I frequently don't reboot right away
> after installing an updated kernel image, and in fact may install
> multiple such updates before I finally reboot. My typical uptime in
> between reboots is at least a month and a half, probably at least two or
> three months, but I dist-upgrade to testing at least once every two or
> three weeks.)
>
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