From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34CCE158020 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD625E0946; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41114E091A for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oulo0-0003i3-Av for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:36:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:36:00 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <3418bb3d-f939-6606-7e19-5e883c198208@gmail.com> <5f196e3a-9457-4cf5-8e30-431259d41b61@gmail.com> <1840154.CQOukoFCf9@lenovo.localdomain> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: 94d4f5d8-f8c7-458b-a3b1-1a2c10050b87 X-Archives-Hash: 808d998512399025af131ba82cb25d06 On 2022-11-14, Michael wrote: > Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new > kernel takes no longer than a couple of minutes. On my systems it typically takes about 15-20 seconds. I try to reboot at least once a month when I have some spare time -- just to make sure I can. What I don't want to happen is that some mishandled upgrade has broken my system so that it won't boot properly, but I don't know about until months later when I'm in the middle of something urgent and the power glitches. Then I spend several hours I don't have trying to figure out what's wrong. [Been there, done that, it's _not_ fun.] If you wait years between reboots, and it doesn't go well when you do have to reboot, there are usually a lot of possible causes. The same applies to X11: I like to restart it every week or so just to make sure nothing's been broken by recent upgrades. It's a _lot_ easier to find/fix a problem when the upgrade that caused it is recent (and there's only the one problem). If you wait long enough, you end up with multiple problems that sometimes aggravate each other. -- Grant