Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > > so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
> > 
> > Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it.  kernel,
> > dbus, etc...
> 
> Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?

The system bus cannot be restarted.  Similarly, any apps you have
running will be using old libraries so things like glibc you really want
to reboot for.  

Jeremy