Need to logout on Update

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/21/2011 08:29 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/07/21 15:16 (GMT+0800) Ed Greshko composed:
>
>> 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?
>
>> FWIW, I have not seen this problem.  Last update, I waited 2 days before a logout/login.
>
> I find it difficult for anyone to expect updates to complex interdependent
> running binaries to continue to function correctly while and after updates to
> them are applied. I always turn off automatic desktop updaters and update
> notifiers, usually exit X before applying updates, and when not, restart
> immediately after application completes, if not reboot the system.

nod, one thing I'm looking forward to presumably coming in packagekit 
soonish, is the ability to apply updates on shutdown.

-- rex