Hi Andreas,
sadly, the documentation in ADP 0.7 does not expose the meaning of
NEEDRESTART-KSTA values. Since ADP was developed for apt-dater the
meaning of NEEDRESTART-STA can be lookuped in apt-dater's sources[1]:
#define ADP_STATUS_NRK_UNKNOWN 0
#define ADP_STATUS_NRK_NOUPGR 1
#define ADP_STATUS_NRK_ABIUPGR 2
#define ADP_STATUS_NRK_VERUPGR 3
[1]
https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/blob/master/include/adproto.h#L106-L109
The value '1' for NEEDRESTART-KSTA does indicate that there is no
upgrade pending while '0' would indicate a failure during kernel
detection.
HTH,
Thomas
Andreas Papst <[email protected]> writes:
> Package: needrestart
> Version: 2.8-1~bpo8+1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> ii linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3.16.36-1+deb8u1
> amd64 Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs
> ii linux-image-amd64 3.16+63
> amd64 Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
> $ uname -v
> #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 (2016-09-03)
>
> shows, that the latest installed kernel is running, but
>
> `needrestart -b' reports
> NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1
>
> indicating that a refresh is needed according to
> https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater-host/blob/master/doc/ADP-0.7
>
> with `needrestart' without `-b' anything is fine.
>
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> needrestart -b
>
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1
>
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 0
> or none
>
>
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> needrestart output:
>
> root# needrestart -c /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf -b
> NEEDRESTART-VER: 2.7
> NEEDRESTART-KCUR: 3.16.0-4-amd64
> NEEDRESTART-KEXP: 3.16.0-4-amd64
> NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1
>
> root# needrestart -c /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf
> Scanning processes...
>
> Scanning linux images...
>
> Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
> No services need to be restarted.
> No containers need to be restarted.
> No user sessions are running outdated binaries.
>
> checkrestart output:
>
> # checkrestart
> Found 0 processes using old versions of upgraded files
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.5
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
> ii dpkg 1.17.27
> ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2
> ii libintl-perl 1.23-1+deb8u1
> ii libmodule-find-perl 0.12-1
> ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.16-1
> ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.51-1
> ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1
> ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.32-1+b1
> ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6
> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
>
> needrestart recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages needrestart suggests:
> pn needrestart-session | libnotify-bin <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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