* Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system
@ 2006-04-29 1:27 99% ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
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From: Hemmann, Volker Armin @ 2006-04-29 1:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Saturday 29 April 2006 02:42, Kevin wrote:
>
> It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system
> upgrade done with:
>
> emerge -uD system
> or
> emerge -uD world
>
> I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
short answer: no
long answer: only after kernel updates
> I could be wrong on this, but it seems reasonable to me to think that I
> should reboot in certain circumstances. Perhaps after an upgrade to the
> glibc package or other libraries... not sure.
you are wrong.
You don't need to reboot. Only, and really only after a kernel update you need
to reboot.
Services might to have to be restarted, but that requires no reboot, just a
console and root.
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