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This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.
FS#66275 - Notify user that installed kernel != running kernel
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Pacman
Opened by Benjamin Flesch (bflesch) - Thursday, 16 April 2020, 14:43 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 17 April 2020, 00:08 GMT
Opened by Benjamin Flesch (bflesch) - Thursday, 16 April 2020, 14:43 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 17 April 2020, 00:08 GMT
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DetailsSummary and Info:
Pacman should improve its output after a kernel update has been installed but the system has not been rebooted yet. My personal story: This morning, I ran pacman -Syu and I didn't notice that the kernel was updated & the terminal with the output was closed. Many hours later - in the afternoon - I was unable to connect to the wifi and had weird errors showing up. After debugging this issue with the dear folks at #archlinux IRC channel for quite some time, it was suggested to check which kernel I am on. When running uname -r, I saw the old kernel running, so it was suggested by #archlinux to upgrade kernel. But running pacman -Syu did not show any new packages, and no kernel updates. Then attention shifted to debugging the package mirrors (pacman.d/mirrorlist), etc. After some time, I was asked to check pacman -Q linux and it showed the proper kernel version. Then I was told that I need to reboot my machine, and - magically - after a reboot the wifi issue was fixed. During this process, I ran pacman -Syu many times, and it always had output like this: ---------------8<---------------- :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do --------------->8---------------- This was shown even though `pacman -Q linux` and `uname -r` returned two different kernel versions. AFAIK kernel updates are always a bit tricky in terms of drivers, so I think many users are potentielly affected by not rebooting after updating the kernel, and later reporting some problems over the #archlinux IRC channel or other support channels. I suggest that pacman -Syu shows a notification message such as "WARNING: Your kernel was updated but you did not reboot yet, if you experience any issues please reboot first!" in order to spare other people the same waste of time that I had. |
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