On 2020-05-15 16:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-15 02:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> But this discussion is rather irrelevant anyway. You're not going to get what you want. Online updates are not "supported". You can do them if you want, but you are on your own. I do online upgrades (not system upgrades), but I also generally reboot right after. I prefer to do them online so I can keep using the computer while it's happening but also dnf doesn't support offline updates yet. >> FWIW, I use KDE as my desktop and do all my updates online via dnf. >> >> After the update I run "sudo tracer" and follow the advice given. Sometimes, no action is needed. >> Sometimes, a few applications need to be restarted, Sometimes, a logout/login is best. And, at other >> times it is a reboot which is advisable. > Same here, except that I use the tracer module for dnf so it's invoked > automatically. It occasionally tells me to reboot when I don't think it > should (I've reported it as a bug in the past but to no effect). Other > than that, it works for me. > Yes, for the most part it gives sound advice. Today wasn't that day....but I saw it coming. Rather than asking me to logout/login it suggested that systemctl restart dbus-broker was all that is needed. Well, as we know, lots of this communicate via dbus. I was fully aware what would happen and as predicted my session became unusable. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
