From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ8SA-0000uP-Sm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:34:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB78CE07A0; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAA8E07A0 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:33:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4B22746D.8050603@kutulu.org> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:33:49 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use? References: <200912111120.22824.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200912111325.13285.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <6e6572060912110533o55b43fb1t4876c33a140beb5a@mail.gmail.com> <4B22594A.30108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B22594A.30108@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2009 16:33:49.0327 (UTC) FILETIME=[B79A79F0:01CA7A7F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cd4840db-d4e4-4f22-a5e6-53d69f4a69a4 X-Archives-Hash: b2fb63ab76fef0d3b7e82ec6752ef04d On 12/11/2009 9:38 AM, Dale wrote: > Micka=EBl Bucas wrote: >> From the process name, you can deduce the service and restart it. >> I've never needed a reboot for this kind of problem. >> You may have to switch to run level 1 to restart some important >> services like udev. > Actually, you can kill udev and restart it. Kill the process and then > run "/sbin/udevd --daemon" and it will be started again. Yeah, or you could, you know, just reboot. Frankly I have never figured out the irrational fear Linux people have=20 about rebooting their machines after a big upgrade. It takes my laptop=20 way less time to shutdown and restart than it does for me to manually=20 stop and restart everything that just got updated, and I can go grab a=20 soda in the meantime. --Mike