Logging out and in again should be enough. Although that wouldn't be
true where the login screen (also hosted by gnome-shell) was still
running during your desktop login but these days the login screen is
stopped and restarted on demand. So indeed logging out and in again
should be sufficient if you were running GNOME. Or do nothing at all if
you're logged into KDE (providing the login screen's gnome-shell
instance is not still running).
So you're right, but it can be complicated.
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1999833
Title:
gnome-shell update should not request a reboot if it is not running
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
The gnome-shell package requests a reboot even if no GNOME desktop is
running.
This reminds me too much of how Microsoft Windows only knows about
itself. Windows assumes it is the only OS and overwrites GRUB, and now
gnome-shell is assuming it's the only desktop environment (even
ignoring the fact that Linux always has TTY too) and requests that
everyone reboot even if just its users need to relog. It's also too
much like how Windows will tell the user to restart their computer
when just a single service needs to be restarted, while gnome-shell is
now also telling the user to restart their computer if the just need
to relog, possibly with a `killall5`.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.10
Release: 22.10
$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
Installed: 43.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 43.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 43.1-0ubuntu1 500 (phased 80%)
500 https://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/pub/mirrors/ubuntu
kinetic-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
43.0-1ubuntu2 500
500 https://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/pub/mirrors/ubuntu kinetic/main
amd64 Packages
# Expected Behavior
There should not be a reboot notification in my KDE tray after running
apt upgrade. No gnome desktop is logged in.
# Actual Behavior
There is a needless reboot notification in my KDE tray.
`/var/run/reboot-required` exists.
$ cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs
gnome-shell
# Analysis
In gnome-shell_43.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb there is control.tar.zst which has
postinst. In that script there is not check for whether a gnome-session is
running. Perhaps a `if ps -ef | grep -q gnome-shell; then` could be added. Even
Firefox only tells you to restart only running instances.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
DisplayManager:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: gnome-shell 43.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 43.0-1ubuntu4
ShellJournal: -- No entries --
Tags: third-party-packages kinetic wayland-session
Uname: Linux 6.0.12-surface x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-09-29 (77 days ago)
UserGroups: dialout docker kvm lpadmin lxd plugdev sudo systemd-journal video
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