Bug#584979: update-manager-gnome: bogus restart required message when installing extra linux kernel packages

Paul Wise pabs3 at bonedaddy.net
Tue Jun 8 07:48:21 UTC 2010


reassign 584979 update-notifier 0.99.3debian4
thanks

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> First this is not update-manager but update-notifier which showed the
> warning.

My apologies, reassigning.

> Second, it is obvious that you need to reboot after installing a new
> kernel, regardless of whether or not it overwrote the current modules.
> Our ABI checks are now fine so it’s not expected to crash randomly when
> you upgrade the running kernel in place, but in all cases you need to
> reboot to have the new kernel.

When I reboot, I'll be rebooting into the same kernel, not the newer
ones from sid/experimental. The latter two are only for testing. So no,
I do not need to reboot. The only case where adding a new kernel would
need a reboot would be where you remove one kernel and install a new one
at the same time.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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