On 11/30/22, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:44:49AM +0100, DdB wrote: >> Am 29.11.2022 um 23:35 schrieb Loïc Grenié: >> > when I apt upgrade my system, I often (one every three, more >> > or less) find myself brutally logged out of the window system, >> > with systemd services painfully restarting (or failing to restart). >> > The only way I can recover is usually to reboot. >> >> Yes, i see similar problem, amd AFAICT it is somewhat related to my use >> of GNOME3. They insist on restarting the system for almost all package >> updates, but sometimes, i refuse to and keep the machine running without >> updating it. I am aware, this could cause troubles on the security-side. >> That is why i am keeping a long list of system-backups. > > FWIW it never happened to me. But: I'm on a pretty minimal system by > today's standards (X, Fvwm). The only application behaving strangely > after a dist-upgrade is... the browser, Firefix: "Ohmigod, something > funny happened, I'll have to close this tab, I'm sooo sorry". > > So it seems to be related to Gnome's love for complexity, yes (any > KDE/XFCE users out there?)
XFCE user here - it's never happened to me. Then again, I use the synaptic package manager instead of apt upgrade so that might have something to do with it. And the needrestart package plays very nicely with the synaptic package manager - after updating software I get a popup offering to restart processes whose files were just updated Regards, Lee
