Bug#896926: needrestart: false positive: microcode warnings after CPU upgrade

2021-03-08 Thread Patrik Schindler
Hello, the µCode-Check fails if there is no iucode-tool installed at all, which I would not expect. Without the tool, there can be no updates beside what the machine's BIOS provides and checking for that is out of scope for needrestart. I'd suggest to skip firmware processing completely if ther

Bug#896926: needrestart: false positive: microcode warnings after CPU upgrade

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
Package: needrestart Version: 3.1-1 Severity: normal I recently moved a system to a different CPU. I got lots of needrestart warnings about a pending processor microcode upgrade but not even a reboot fixed the issue. The reason is that the initramfs had not been updated yet so restarting did not