Hi,
do you guys by any chance have the utility `needrestart` on your system?
From what I was able to find it is sometimes used to extend `apt` with
exactly this auto-restart functionality.
If you do have it installed and `sudo cat
/etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf | grep {restart}`
outputs `$nrconf{restart} = 'a';` then it is this utility restarting the
BIRD deamon.
If not, we need to look into it further :)
Thanks,
David
David Petera (he/him) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
On 1/5/26 15:49, Christoph via Bird-users wrote:
Maria Matejka via Bird-users:
At the same time in the log shows the restart without manually
triggering it:
Jan 05 11:51:47 Stopping bird.service - BIRD Internet Routing
Daemon… Jan 05 11:51:52 bird.service: Deactivated successfully. Jan
05 11:51:52 Stopped bird.service - BIRD Internet Routing Daemon. Jan
05 11:51:52 bird.service: Consumed 49min 40.707s CPU time, 1.3G
memory peak. Jan 05 11:51:52 Starting bird.service - BIRD Internet
Routing Daemon… Jan 05 11:51:52 Started bird.service - BIRD Internet
Routing Daemon.
That’s weird. I have no idea how this happened to you. We don’t
request for the restart anywhere. Will run tests and check whether we
can replicate this behavior on our side.
Oh interesting also Debian 14 Trixie here.
One more information: During the upgrade apt asked me whether I want
to replace /etc/bird/bird.conf because it changed upstream in the
usual ncurses interface. I selected 'keep the current configuration'
or similar.
If there are other testers that can confirm what I'm seeing
(autorestart on upgrade), please join.
thanks!
Christoph
