severity 831840 minor tags 831840 wontfix upstream thanks Hi Paul,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:52:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I have linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64 and linux-image-4.6.0-1-grsec-amd64 > installed and am running linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64 because various > services fail under linux-image-4.6.0-1-grsec-amd64. Every time I run > needrestart I get a notice to reboot even though the Linux kernel > variant I am running has not been upgraded. Please change the code to > take into account the possibility of alternate kernel variants. > On Debian amd64 there are currently two kernel variants: rt grsec I have no idea howto reliable detect different variants of linux images. Looking for non-numeric or well known parts in the version string is fragile. Regards, Thomas > Scanning linux images... > Pending kernel upgrade! > > Running kernel version: > 4.6.0-1-amd64 > > Diagnostics: > The currently running kernel version is not the expected kernel version > 4.6.0-1-grsec-amd64. > > Restarting the system to load the new kernel will not be handled > automatically, so you should consider rebooting. [Return] > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing-debug > APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, > 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, > 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages needrestart depends on: > ii dpkg 1.18.9 > ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-1 > ii libintl-perl 1.24-1 > ii libmodule-find-perl 0.13-1 > ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.21-1 > ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.53-1+b1 > ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1 > ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.33-1+b1 > ii perl 5.22.2-2 > ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 > > needrestart recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages needrestart suggests: > ii libnotify-bin 0.7.6-2 > ii needrestart-session 0.3-2 > > -- no debconf information > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- :: WWW: https://fiasko-nw.net/~thomas/ :: ::: Jabber: xmpp:[email protected] ::: :: flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laugufe/ ::
