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The Thursday 2007-08-09 at 07:09 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > Next install OpenOffice from rpm, reboot your system and all should be
> > fine
>
> Why reboot? The only software change that requires a reboot is the kernel.
Mmm...
There is a little known detail.
When you update something from rpms, often there are services and programs
that need to be restarted, because they keep using an old version of
libraries that were updated, but as the programs were started previous to
the update they keep using the old version. This a feature/side effect of
*nix filesystems (files in use are not really deleted).
You can detect those files running this after an update:
lsof | grep -E 'RPMDELETE|;|path inode='
Of course, knowing which programs or services need to be restarted, and
doing so, is enough. But not knowing which are those, a reboot is an
alternative. An overkill, but it works when you don't know what needs a
restart.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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