On 2020-05-15 16:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-05-15 02:51, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> But this discussion is rather irrelevant anyway. You're not going to get
what you want. Online updates are not "supported". You can do them if you
want, but you are on your own. I do online upgrades (not system upgrades), but I also
generally reboot right after. I prefer to do them online so I can keep using the computer
while it's happening but also dnf doesn't support offline updates yet.
> FWIW, I use KDE as my desktop and do all my updates online via dnf.
>
> After the update I run "sudo tracer" and follow the advice given.
Sometimes, no action is needed.
> Sometimes, a few applications need to be restarted, Sometimes, a logout/login is
best. And, at other
> times it is a reboot which is advisable.
Same here, except that I use the tracer module for dnf so it's invoked
automatically. It occasionally tells me to reboot when I don't think it
should (I've reported it as a bug in the past but to no effect). Other
than that, it works for me.
Yes, for the most part it gives sound advice. Today wasn't that day....but I saw it
coming.
Rather than asking me to logout/login it suggested that
systemctl restart dbus-broker
was all that is needed. Well, as we know, lots of this communicate via dbus. I was
fully
aware what would happen and as predicted my session became unusable.
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