So, I actually just installed my regular updates today with Discover and noticed a few library changes. The update completed properly. If I run needrestart after (or do an apt install), it confirms it wants to restart some libraries. I can continue to install other packages with Discover as well. So it looks like that package was all I needed.
Thanks, Ryan On Saturday, January 1, 2022 8:42:26 A.M. EST Thomas Liske wrote: > Hi, > > could you check running needrestart as root on cli if you have any > pending restarts? > > You might try to reinstall a lib to trigger needrestart (i.e. via apt- > get install --reinstall libnss3 - this *should* not break anything) to > force to get a pending restarts. > > Please check if needrestart and debconf-kde-helper are working when > using KDE Discover afterwards. > > > Regards, > Thomas > > On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 10:10 -0500, Ryan Armstrong wrote: > > I did not, but your message prompted me to go looking a bit. I found > > I had > > not installed debconf-kde-helper. I would have expected a package > > like this to > > get pulled in when I installed KDE, so I expect it is missing as a > > dependency > > (for plasma-discover perhaps?) > > > > In my setup, KDE was installed onto an existing setup by running `apt > > install > > kde-plasma-desktop` > > > > I did one update after installing the helper, but didn't notice > > anything (it > > didn't stall, though). As long as that fixes the problem, I guess > > this bug > > should be redirected as a dependency issue? > > > > Ryan > > > > On Friday, December 31, 2021 9:54:02 A.M. EST you wrote: > > > Hi Ryan, > > > > > > needrestart should not block if it is run non-interactive. On > > > Debian it > > > uses the debconf frontend which also has graphical frontends. Do > > > you > > > get debconf dialogs in KDE Discover when installing/updating > > > packages > > > at all? (Sorry I do not have an KDE environment for testing.) > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Thomas > > > > > > On Tue, 2021-12-28 at 08:33 -0500, Ryan Armstrong wrote: > > > > Package: needrestart > > > > Version: 3.5-5 > > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > > > When I performed an update with KDE Discover, I noticed it > > > > stalled at > > > > 99% complete status and would not finish. When I checked the > > > > process > > > > tree with htop, I noticed the following lines from packagekitd > > > > and > > > > needrestart: > > > > > > > > 2629 root 20 0 492M 124M 79624 S 0.0 0.8 0:29.20 > > > > ├─ > > > > /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 2632 root 20 0 492M 124M 79624 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.00 > > > > │ > > > > ├─ /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 2634 root 20 0 492M 124M 79624 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.05 > > > > │ > > > > ├─ /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 14075 root 20 0 492M 124M 79624 S 0.0 0.8 0:05.78 > > > > │ > > > > ├─ /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 14090 root 20 0 494M 99648 50800 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.24 > > > > │ > > > > └─ /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 25864 root 20 0 494M 51924 2336 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 > > > > │ └─ /usr/libexec/packagekitd > > > > 25872 root 20 0 2472 704 616 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 > > > > │ └─ sh -c test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke && > > > > /usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke || true > > > > 25873 root 20 0 35864 27816 6140 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.64 > > > > │ └─ /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/needrestart > > > > > > > > It appears that packagekit is still running needrestart to ask if > > > > I > > > > want to restart systemd services. However, this prompt is > > > > obviously > > > > not > > > > visible to me through KDE Discover, so it's stuck waiting > > > > forever. > > > > > > > > If I use kill on needrestart, the Discover session completes. > > > > > > > > Since, this is an interaction between Discover, packagekit, apt > > > > and > > > > needrestart (possibly others?), I'm not 100% sure this is the > > > > right > > > > place for it. Feel free to reassign if I got it wrong. > > > > > > > > Ryan > > > > > > > > -- Package-specific info: > > > > needrestart output: > > > > Your outdated processes: > > > > akonadi_archive[3076], akonadi_mailfil[3102], > > > > akonadi_sendlat[3116], > > > > akonadi_unified[3117], blueman-applet[2663], Discord[2921, 2924, > > > > 2967, 2922, 2958, 2917, 3276, 3044], DiscoverNotifie[2571], > > > > evolution-addre[2767], evolution-alarm[2660], evolution- > > > > calen[2742], > > > > evolution-sourc[2698], goa-daemon[2704], kmail[2936], > > > > kwin_x11[2488], > > > > nextcloud[2656], plasmashell[2554], QtWebEngineProc[6196, 6215, > > > > 6194, > > > > 6193], tracker-miner-f[2674], xdg-desktop-por[2375], xdg- > > > > document- > > > > po[2392], xdg-permission-[2397] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > > > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > > > > APT prefers testing > > > > APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') > > > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > > > > > > > Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) > > > > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > > > > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US > > > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > > > > > Versions of packages needrestart depends on: > > > > ii binutils 2.37-7 > > > > ii dpkg 1.21.1 > > > > ii gettext-base 0.21-4 > > > > ii libintl-perl 1.26-3 > > > > ii libmodule-find-perl 0.15-1 > > > > ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.31-1 > > > > ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1 > > > > ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-2 > > > > ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b2 > > > > ii perl 5.32.1-6 > > > > ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2 > > > > > > > > Versions of packages needrestart recommends: > > > > ii libpam-systemd 249.7-1 > > > > > > > > Versions of packages needrestart suggests: > > > > ii iucode-tool 2.3.1-1 > > > > ii libnotify-bin 0.7.9-3 > > > > > > > > -- no debconf information
