Re: reboot required after linux-image upgrade?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 12:44:36 The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.

So far, I have never had a problem.

Lisi