On 22 October 2014 20:07, Michael Stahl <mstahl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 17.09.2014 13:58, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 11:54 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> All those OSes require reboots when updating the OS.
>
> Define OS.
>
> Firefox is definitely not OS. While systemd is OS.
> I am fine with reboot after systemd upgrade, but not after upgrading Firefox.
the important point in that case is not reboot after upgrading Firefox
but *before* upgrading Firefox, which means that at the time of the
upgrade no Firefox will be running and potentially crashing because one
of the 100s of DSOs it loads on-demand has changed in an incompatible way.
there used to be quite a few ABRT crashes reported against desktop
applications with impossible looking stack traces (although with the
automatic micro-reports it's less of a problem nowadays as they are
easier to ignore), and sometimes the reporter gives feedback that the
application was running across a yum update...
While it can be a bit confusing the first time it happens to you, the
solution is just to start and stop firefox again in that case. If it
the goal is just to tidy ABRT crash reports (and I'm not sure it is)
then forcing reboots on users wouldn't be very kind.
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