Should removing old kernels trigger the "reboot required" message?

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 11 12:41:09 UTC 2017


hi,
On Di, 2017-04-11 at 13:22 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2017-04-07, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > 
> > hi,
> > Am Freitag, den 07.04.2017, 09:10 +0100 schrieb Adam Funk:
> > > 
> > >  Is that harmless?  Is
> > > there a good reason why the system sets the reboot files in this
> > > case?
> > 
> > while usually being harmless, the removal of the packages will run
> > update-grub to re-generate the bootloader configuration, so
> > suggesting
> > a reboot to the user to make sure everything is still in order
> > isn't a
> > bad idea ...
> 
> Interesting point, but I guess it's unlikely unless the grub
> configuration options have been changed too?
> 
> 

well, adding removing a kernel entry changes them ... 

also, IIRC your initrd gets re-generated ...

ciao
	oli
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