Need to logout on Update

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/21/2011 09:29 PM, 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.

I agree with you, in the sense that it is probably unrealistic to expect
that a session will continue to run for an infinite time after
components have been updated.  I have not, so far, had a session
deteriorate due to updates being performed but lacking a logout/login
session.


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