I’ve noticed that each time I run “zypper update” I get a message saying that some processes might need to be re-started and to run “zypper ps”. After running “zypper ps” there are listed several processes/applications that may need to be re-started. How should I go about doing this re-start? Thank you for any help you can give me on this.
You can go to YaST / System / Run Level to restart things in mass I suppose and you can issue a single command to start them one at a time, but I must admit I just restart my PC most of the time. You can get a faster start with my fastboot utility from here:
FastBoot for Grub Legacy Menu using Kexec - Version 1.32 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums
Thank You,
Thank you very much. I didn’t realize it was that simple.
Happy to help and I always accept any comments on my bash scripts.
Thank You,
I’m lazy, I just ignore the message. **
On 2011-12-19 00:56, gdawg65 wrote:
>
> I’ve noticed that each time I run “zypper update” I get a message saying
> that some processes might need to be re-started and to run “zypper ps”.
> After running “zypper ps” there are listed several
> processes/applications that may need to be re-started. How should I go
> about doing this re-start? Thank you for any help you can give me on
> this.
Well, you read the list and try to guess what process they belong to. If
you see something like “postfix”, then you know you have to restart
postfix: “rcpostfix restart”. If you see “firefox”, then just restart
firefox. If you see things related to kde or gnome, you probably will do
right by logging out and continue checking “zypper ps” in terminal 1.
Sometimes there are so many processes, that you have to do “init 1”
followed by “init 3” or 5 to restart them. If you see something like the
recent glibc, you need to reboot the machine.
You are the administrator, so do your job 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-12-19 00:56, gdawg65 wrote:
>
> I’ve noticed that each time I run “zypper update” I get a message saying
> that some processes might need to be re-started and to run “zypper ps”.
> After running “zypper ps” there are listed several
> processes/applications that may need to be re-started. How should I go
> about doing this re-start? Thank you for any help you can give me on
> this.
Forgot to say: if you don’t take action, you are still using the old,
not-updated, libraries and applications.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Usually logging out of the desktop environment and logging in restarts the processes for me. If it’s a desktop there is always the easy way out simply reboot.
Best regards,
Greg