Am 18.02.2013 17:01, schrieb Claudio Freire:
Care to elaborate?
Many messages that tell you to reboot should actually just tell you to re-login. There's a big difference there, regarding running services.
Think of a Firefox update. Firefox consists of many different files in JavaScript, XUL and other languages, describing the UI, different parts of the application, etc. When showing e.g. a new tab with the Addon manager, one of those files is loaded from disk and displayed. Now, if you update Firefox, those files get replaced with a newer version. If one (or many) users have still a Firefox instance running, this results in a mix of old and new Firefox code running (the binary and the main libraries are still the old ones, since they are running, but many components that are loaded on demand, like the addon manager files mentioned before, are now from the new Firefox version. I guess many people have already seen that happening, and that's also the reason why Ubuntu has a custom Firefox add-on that displays an information bar inside Firefox telling you to restart your browser. So the right way to do updates for software like this is to wait until no Firefox instance is running on the machine. The easiest time where this is guaranteed is actually during shutdown or boot. HTH Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org