packages requiring me to reboot...
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 15 17:38:02 UTC 2009
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 09:54 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> Does gdm entirely restart when you logout? I don't believe so. I suspect
>> you get the same result by killing X then going back to that runlevel
>> but for many many many users a reboot is going to be less error-prone.
>
> Isn't there gdm-restart for that purpose? I don't really know, but I'm just
> confused as to why a program that lets me login requires a reboot...
>
> I *really* don't want to sound whiny or anything like that, or be one of
> those that compare us to windows... but one of my favorite things from years
> ago was that I only had to reboot with a new kernel. Now I feel like I reboot
> every update. I mean, even the ibus stuff was stating I needed a reboot. As
> far as I know that is used for alternative language input, which I don't use,
> fair enough it doesn't know that. But what about it needs a reboot?
>
> I'm also curious why gdm is still running once I've logged in. I see the
> user-switch stuff but I'm just wondering. I mean rebooting isn't the end of
> the world but man it sure happens a lot now
I don't have a good answer. You might want to ask on the
fedora-desktop-list and/or in a bug for that component. I was just trying
to explain the specific behavior you saw.
Now, having said that - how would you feel if the updater stopped you
before it ran and said "you're running an app I'm trying to update, please
close the app so I can update it". Would that be a pain or ok?
-sv
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