[lubuntu-users] Unexpected system restart requested.

2016-05-27 Thread E James
I'm curious. Can anyone enlighten me? What is it about the latest updates to 14.04 that requires a system restart? I thought it was only kernel updates that needed a restart and I see no evidence of a kernel update in the list. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: [lubuntu-users] Unexpected system restart requested.

2016-05-27 Thread Simon Quigley
Greetings, All of the packages are updated, and in those packages are system services that need to be restarted for the update to be applied. It's just easier to reboot than to have to restart each process one by one. -- Simon Quigley tsimo...@ubuntu.com tsimonq2 on Freenode -- Lubuntu-user

Re: [lubuntu-users] Unexpected system restart requested.

2016-05-28 Thread E James
On 28/05/16 07:35, Simon Quigley wrote: > Greetings, > > All of the packages are updated, and in those packages are system services > that need to be restarted for the update to be applied. It's just easier to > reboot than to have to restart each process one by one. > Thanks for the prompt re

Re: [lubuntu-users] Unexpected system restart requested.

2016-05-28 Thread Simon Quigley
Greetings, The difference between restarting after a regular software update and a release update is that the latter usually requires a restart just to be safe. For example, 14.04 -> 16.04 is two years of software updates. Open source software really evolves in that timespan. So if it is just a