Need to logout on Update

[John Pilkington]

On 21/07/11 09:21, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 21/07/11 03:38, Jim Dean wrote:
>> A recent discussion on Fedora forums raised the need to logout and back
>> after a KDE version update. I've noticed that the system becomes
>> unstable, last time I got a plasma crash, and others reported similar
>> things. Is this common or just a few people?
>> It was suggested that a bug should be raised for it.
>>
>
> This doesn't seem to be a problem for us on F14 usually, although things
> did go a bit odd after the kde 4.5.x to 4.6 update until we logged out
> and in again.
>
> Roderick

A post on Fedora-users (poc, 28/06/11 17:22) drew my attention to 
needs-restarting, which is part of the yum-utils package.

[John at localhost ~]$ needs-restarting --help
Usage:
     needs-restarting: Report a list of process ids of programs that 
started running before they or some component they use were updated.

Options:
   -h, --help      show this help message and exit
   -u, --useronly  show processes for my userid only
[John at localhost ~]$

Null output suggests that all should be ok.

I haven't used this because I thought it might be yum-specific, and I 
normally use smart, but this --help info makes it look depsolver agnostic.

John P