Hello, Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 schrieb Karl Eichwalder:
It is not the first time that I see such a message while applying online updates:
┌──────────────────────────────────────── │ These updates require a system reboot to function properly: │ │ openSUSE-2014-97. │ │ Reboot the system as soon as possible. │ │ [OK] └────────────────────────────────────────
What can we do to improve those messages? The user will not know what openSUSE-2014-97 is about.
The easiest way would be a button "[show patch details]" (or a similar "> show patch details" expandable) that shows the patch description of the patch that asked for the reboot. The BOfH way yould be to just add a text "we told you before in the patch description" ;-)
BTW, I searched for openSUSE-2014-97 (with DDG), but nothing helpful appears on the result page.
In this case, it's the AppArmor update for 13.1. Just in case you wonder why it needs a reboot - I found a bug in apparmor-parser %postun that, in combination with systemd, removes AppArmor protection from running processes when updating the apparmor-parser package. (See the patch description or changelog for details.) That's the reason why this update has the "reboot needed" flag set. If you don't want to reboot, run aa-status and restart all processes listed in the section "... processes are unconfined but have a profile defined." That said - yes, it would be nice to have a place that links "openSUSE-2014-97" to the patch details. BTW: what's "DDG"? Regards, Christian Boltz -- who needs facts if polemics are that much easier to get into. [Sven Burmeister in opensuse-factory]