Need to logout on Update

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jul 21 13:11:38 UTC 2011


On 07/20/2011 09:38 PM, 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?

Even minor kde-4.x.y updates (where y increments), a session restart is 
recommended.  for major (x increments) updates, we set the flag to 
request a reboot.  These session or restart recommendations are exposed 
via PackageKit (and kpackagekit) when applying updates.

-- rex


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