Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After upgrading my system, I always run "needrestart".
> This works, mostly, fine. But sometimes I don't pay enough attention
> and accidentally allow a critical service to be restarted, causing the
> server to become unstable.
>
> One of this is "multipathd", which is required for the filesystems.
> Another is "xenstored" (which has obvious issues with all the VMs
> running)
>
> I am unable to find any config files, but am hoping I can add services
> like this to some exclude-list somewhere.
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> ---
> Joost
I don't know if this will help or not. I use checkrestart to find
services or programs that need to be restarted after updates. This is
the needed info if you want to try it. It's in a overlay.
root@Gentoo-1 / # eix checkrestart
[I] app-admin/checkrestart [1]
Available versions: (~)0.53{gpkg}
{PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_10 python3_11 python3_12"}
Installed versions: 0.53{gpkg}(12:38:09 PM
10/30/2024)(PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_12 -python3_10 -python3_11")
Homepage: https://github.com/voyageur/checkrestart/
Description: the sysadmin's rolling upgrade tool
[1] "voyageur" /var/db/repos/voyageur
root@Gentoo-1 / #
What I like about it, it doesn't restart anything. It just lists what
needs to be done and you do it manually. That way if there is something
that shouldn't be restarted, you just don't restart it. This is a
sample of output, pretty good one too.
root@Gentoo-1 / # checkrestart
Found 76 processes using old versions of upgraded files
(54 distinct programs)
(36 distinct packages)
Of these, 3 seem to contain init scripts which can be used to restart them:
app-admin/gkrellm:
2612 /usr/bin/gkrellm
sys-apps/systemd-utils:
21459 /usr/bin/udevadm
sys-auth/elogind:
21795 /usr/lib/elogind/elogind
These are the init scripts:
/etc/init.d/gkrellmd restart
/etc/init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup restart
/etc/init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev restart
/etc/init.d/elogind restart
These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart
them:
app-accessibility/at-spi2-core:
2310 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd
2227 /usr/libexec/at-spi-bus-launcher
4877 /usr/libexec/at-spi-bus-launcher
app-misc/geoclue:
2615 /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
gnome-base/dconf:
2354 /usr/libexec/dconf-service
gnome-base/gvfs:
11616 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-trash
11636 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-network
3305 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-metadata
11642 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-dnssd
2302 /usr/libexec/gvfsd
3260 /usr/libexec/gvfsd
11595 /usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
11608 /usr/libexec/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
kde-apps/dolphin:
2551 /usr/bin/dolphin
2552 /usr/bin/dolphin
2553 /usr/bin/dolphin
2556 /usr/bin/dolphin
kde-apps/konsole:
3210 /usr/bin/konsole
kde-apps/kwrite:
2544 /usr/bin/kwrite
kde-frameworks/kded:
2317 /usr/bin/kded6
kde-frameworks/kwallet:
2209 /usr/bin/kwalletd6
kde-misc/kclock:
2613 /usr/bin/kclockd
kde-misc/krusader:
2535 /usr/bin/krusader
kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:
2328 /usr/libexec/kactivitymanagerd
25268 /usr/libexec/kactivitymanagerd
kde-plasma/kdesu-gui:
2460 /usr/libexec/kf6/kdesu
2721 /usr/libexec/kf6/kdesu
kde-plasma/kglobalacceld:
2619 /usr/libexec/kglobalacceld
kde-plasma/ksystemstats:
2532 /usr/bin/ksystemstats
kde-plasma/kwin:
2321 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
kde-plasma/libkscreen:
2448 /usr/libexec/kf6/kscreen_backend_launcher
kde-plasma/plasma-desktop:
2399 /usr/bin/kaccess
kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:
2398 /usr/bin/xembedsniproxy
2210 /usr/bin/startplasma-x11
2393 /usr/bin/plasmashell
2248 /usr/bin/plasma_session
2377 /usr/bin/ksmserver
2455 /usr/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy
kde-plasma/polkit-kde-agent:
2394 /usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
kde-plasma/powerdevil:
2396 /usr/libexec/org_kde_powerdevil
kde-plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde:
2288 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
3245 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
media-video/mpv:
3876 /usr/bin/mpv
13202 /usr/bin/mpv
16667 /usr/bin/mpv
media-video/smplayer:
5032 /usr/bin/smplayer
media-video/wireplumber:
2618 /usr/bin/wireplumber
net-p2p/qbittorrent:
9517 /usr/bin/qbittorrent
sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal:
2267 /usr/libexec/xdg-document-portal
3225 /usr/libexec/xdg-document-portal
2272 /usr/libexec/xdg-permission-store
3230 /usr/libexec/xdg-permission-store
2259 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal
3218 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal
sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk:
2294 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
3251 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
sys-auth/polkit:
2335 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
sys-fs/udisks:
2372 /usr/libexec/udisks2/udisksd
sys-power/upower:
2387 /usr/libexec/upowerd
www-client/seamonkey:
4853 /usr/lib64/seamonkey/seamonkey
x11-misc/sddm:
2196 /usr/libexec/sddm-helper
2172 /usr/bin/sddm
root@Gentoo-1 / #
To get that I re-emerged sys-apps/util-linux. It's a package that tends
to trigger a lot of things that need to be restarted, services or
software. I shortened that list by closing Firefox. This is a good
example of what it shows and often times what might even require a
reboot. It will also show if init needs to be restarted. I tend to use
telinit u to restart init but rebooting works too.
I might add, I sometimes just use htop to find processes that need to be
restarted. It uses different colors when services or programs are using
outdated files. Running checkrestart sometimes takes longer than just
typing in htop and looking at the colors. The color yellow almost
always means it needs to be restarted.
As I said, you may like needrestart and just want to tweak it a bit. Or
this may help. It may do more of what you want, or not.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
