Hi,
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:43:26AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Means it thinks the kernel has changed, while it has not. I know for sure
> I booted exactly this kernel. It seems to be confused detecting the end of
> the version number in the second case as it appears that it uses the whole
> output of /proc/version for comparison.
I assume the problem might be triggered by the bpo kernel, but I did
not verify, yet. The problem should be exist before 2.8 since the
kernel detection stuff was not changed recently.
> mondschein:~> cat /proc/version
> Linux version 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-686 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version
> 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.5.4-1~bpo8+1 (2016-05-13)
>
>
> Why doesn´t it just use uname -r and be done with it?
Using `uname -r` would hide ABI compatible (security) updates :-(
> On another of my Debian Jessie server VMs I am not seeing this issue, but
> it uses amd64 as architecture instead of i386.
Could you please provide the output of `needrestart -v -r l`? It would
be sufficient to provide the kernel related lines ('^[Kernel]' until
the kernel status message).
HTH & TIA,
Thomas
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