On 21/07/11 16:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:17 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: >> On 21/07/11 09:21, Roderick Johnstone wrote: >>> On 21/07/11 03:38, Jim Dean wrote: >>>> A recent discussion on Fedora forums raised the need to logout and back >>>> after a KDE version update. I've noticed that the system becomes >>>> unstable, last time I got a plasma crash, and others reported similar >>>> things. Is this common or just a few people? >>>> It was suggested that a bug should be raised for it. >>>> >>> >>> This doesn't seem to be a problem for us on F14 usually, although things >>> did go a bit odd after the kde 4.5.x to 4.6 update until we logged out >>> and in again. >>> >>> Roderick >> >> A post on Fedora-users (poc, 28/06/11 17:22) drew my attention to >> needs-restarting, which is part of the yum-utils package. >> >> [John@localhost ~]$ needs-restarting --help >> Usage: >> needs-restarting: Report a list of process ids of programs that >> started running before they or some component they use were updated. >> >> Options: >> -h, --help show this help message and exit >> -u, --useronly show processes for my userid only >> [John@localhost ~]$ >> >> Null output suggests that all should be ok. >> >> I haven't used this because I thought it might be yum-specific, and I >> normally use smart, but this --help info makes it look depsolver agnostic. > > It has nothing to do with yum, or indeed with depsolvers of any sort. It > just looks at the actual running binary and checks the file(s) it came > from. Which is pretty cool IMHO. The code is a page or two of Python and > is very educational to read. > > poc > I looked at it and had my doubts; the script includes what looked to me like a reference to the yum cache but I didn't work out how essential this is to its operation. And I suppose it's best run as root? John P _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
