Re: update, reboot required?
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:04:59AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> > > How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software?
> >
> > Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new
> > microcode, or a new version of the dbus package (because dbus cannot
> > be restarted).
> >
>
> And if there was an upgrade to a major C/C++ library, you may find a
> message that
> running processes using those libraries will be running on the older
> library versions.
Yes. That's why apt will offer to restart services for you.
> Only newly started processes invoke the new versions. So if a library bug
> is causing you
> a current problem, init itself or kernel-space code may need to be
> reloaded. So a reboot.
Huh? No, you don't need to reboot to restart these processes. Unless
one of them happens to be dbus.
You *can* reboot, if you want. If you're unsure, that's always the
safest choice.
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