Package: needrestart Version: 3.4-5 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
Today while doing "apt dist-upgrade" I have obtained a lot of "Negative repeat count does nothing" Perl warnings: root@asus:~# apt dist-upgrade [...] Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.7-3) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Setting up evolution-data-server (3.34.1-1+b1) ... Setting up gnome-settings-daemon (3.34.1-1+b1) ... Setting up gir1.2-gweather-3.0:amd64 (3.34.0-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-2) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <STDIN> line 3. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141. [last line repeated 300+ times] Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 152. Scanning processes... Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 12. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 24. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 36. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 48. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 60. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 72. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 84. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 96. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 108. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 152, <HCGROUP> line 120. Scanning candidates... Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 141, <HCGROUP> line 120. Negative repeat count does nothing at /usr/share/perl5/NeedRestart/UI.pm line 152. Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. Failed to check for processor microcode upgrades. No services need to be restarted. No containers need to be restarted. User sessions running outdated binaries: noon @ session #2: gdm-wayland-ses[1474] noon @ user manager service: chrome-sandbox[2155], chromium[2118,2156,2161], firefox-esr[2012], gnome-session-b[1505], gnome-shell[1519], ibus-daemon[1759], systemd[1387] FYI the command was issued from an Emacs shell buffer. It is a kind of terminal where the number of columns is logically infinite (Emacs handles that through scrolling), so depending on how a program asks "how many columns are there?", the terminal returns 0 meaning "infinite", or the current width of the Emacs window. root@asus:~# perl -le 'use Data::Dumper; use Term::ReadKey; print (Dumper(GetTerminalSize(\*STDOUT)));' $VAR1 = 0; $VAR2 = 0; $VAR3 = 0; $VAR4 = 0; root@asus:~# echo $COLUMNS 105 See also this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2010-12/msg01556.html Maybe this program should first try getting the $COLUMNS environment variable, and only if it fails, default to GetTerminalSize? Or maybe libterm-readkey-perl is wrong and needs a fix? Thanks a lot! Best regards Fabrice -- Package-specific info: needrestart output: Your outdated processes: chromium[2181, 2118, 2186, 2156], emacs[1961], evolution-addre[1794], evolution-alarm[1580], evolution-calen[1766], evolution-sourc[1748], firefox-esr[2012], gnome-session-b[1505, 1477], gnome-shell[1519], gnome-shell-cal[1744], goa-daemon[1695], gsd-a11y-settin[1564], gsd-color[1585], gsd-datetime[1552], gsd-housekeepin[1587], gsd-keyboard[1584], gsd-media-keys[1553], gsd-power[1568], gsd-print-notif[1566], gsd-printer[1676], gsd-rfkill[1571], gsd-screensaver[1565], gsd-sharing[1567], gsd-smartcard[1586], gsd-sound[1569], gsd-wacom[1573], gsd-wwan[1563], gsd-xsettings[1761], gvfs-udisks2-vo[1668], ibus-extension-[1767], ibus-x11[1771], pulseaudio[1399], Web Content[2066, 2547, 2402], Xwayland[1540] -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages needrestart depends on: ii binutils 2.33.1-1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-9 ii libintl-perl 1.26-2 ii libmodule-find-perl 0.13-1 ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.27-1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-1+b1 ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-2 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b1 ii perl 5.30.0-7 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages needrestart recommends: ii libpam-systemd 242-7 Versions of packages needrestart suggests: pn iucode-tool <none> pn needrestart-session | libnotify-bin <none> -- no debconf information
