suggestion
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 2 20:38:00 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:18, Gene C. wrote:
> I just used up2date to get and install all of the updates available including
> the kernel. This is the first time I have had up2date update the kernel.
>
> When up2date completed, I noticed that both the old and new kernels were still
> installed (good) and that the new kernel was now the default (surprised by
> this but I believe it is the correct thing to do).
>
> However, when I went through the up2date panels, there was no message of
> anything warning/telling me that I will need to reboot to actually have the
> new kernel take effect. While there may be other installed packages which
> will not really take effect without a reboot, the kernel is the most obvious
> and glaring. I really thing some "reminder" would be useful about the reboot
> being needed. I will put this bugzilla if you desire.
I updated the kernel and then ran up2date again. It gave me a message
Your system is currently running kernel-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl, but the
newest installed kernel is kernel-2.4.22-1.2082.nptl. It is recommended
that you reboot at the first opportunity to test this new kernel.
Gerry
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