Hi :) Proper Server OSes and command&control systems on such things as the space station and presumably military systems can often do kernel upgrades without needing to reboot. The requirement for minimal down-time is probably a major reason why such systems tend to be BSD, Gnu&Linux and other unix-based platforms and why IWndows has such a tough time trying to crack into such markets.
However, desktops do generally need to reboot at the slightest thing, let alone kernel updates. Regards from Tom :) On 7 June 2014 21:18, MR ZenWiz <mrzen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:31 AM, J.B. Nicholson-Owens > <j...@forestfield.org> wrote: > : > > > > On most OSes (including GNU/Linux) I doubt one can update (in other > words, > > change) something as low-level as an operating system's kernel and > continue > > to run the system normally. After the update and before the reboot, the > new > > kernel is updated on the primary storage medium and the old kernel is > still > > running in memory. I'd imagine that there are all sorts of kernel > > dependencies where the currently-running kernel and newly-installed > kernel > > differ. Therefore you'll see lots of adverse effects for the currently > > running system which are resolved by getting everything rebased on the > > updated kernel. Hence kernel update packages are marked to require a > reboot > > as soon as possible. > > > > I've never seen that happen before, but it makes sense. > > Now if I knew why the update got stuck running depmod for more than > ten minutes, I'd feel more comfortable. Oh, well. > > Thanks. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
