On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:


> Of course, this comes with its own headaches, since of course if you are using
> an encrypted drive, you need to enter your password twice: once to start the
> update and once for the post-update reboot.

Why not change from logout > reboot > update > reboot, to logout >
update > reboot/shutdown? I don't see how unattended/scheduled updates
can really work otherwise. It's probably not sane to stick the KEK
(hash) into NVRAM so it's there for unattended updates even if there's
a sure fire way to remove that entry after the reboot.

> A while ago I was working on a patch
> to PackageKit that would skip the second reboot and just `systemd isolate
> default.target` after the upgrade unless the kernel (or other early boot 
> package
> like dracut) was updated. I never finished it, but I could try to dig it out 
> and
> pass it on to someone who is interested in continuing it.

It's the first reboot that needs to go away in order to solve the
unattended update problem though.

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Chris Murphy
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