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Re: update, reboot required?

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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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update, reboot required? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 03:40 +0100
  Re: update, reboot required? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-19 03:40 +0100
    Re: update, reboot required? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 03:50 +0100
      Re: update, reboot required? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-03-19 05:30 +0100
      Re: update, reboot required? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2022-03-19 12:20 +0100
        Re: update, reboot required? l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2022-03-19 12:50 +0100
    Re: update, reboot required? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 16:10 +0100
      Re: update, reboot required? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-19 16:20 +0100
  Re: update, reboot required? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-19 06:00 +0100
    Re: update, reboot required? Toni Mas Soler <antomassol@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 11:00 +0100
      Re: update, reboot required? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-19 14:30 +0100
        Re: update, reboot required? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 15:20 +0100
    Re: update, reboot required? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-03-19 14:20 +0100
      Re: update, reboot required? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-19 14:40 +0100
        Re: update, reboot required? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-03-19 15:40 +0100
          Re: update, reboot required? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 21:30 +0100
          Re: update, reboot required? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-03-19 22:40 +0100
    Re: update, reboot required? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-03-19 21:10 +0100

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