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. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
