tags 800720 upstream fixed-upstream
thanks
Hi Sven,
On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> The code to detect if a newer kernel has been installed and the system
> should be rebooted does not work on my armhf-based Cubietruck:
the code did only work for x86(_64) kernel images. Although there was
a fallback provided it does only work for uncompressed images.
Upstream has been patched... but on non x86(_64) archs
needrestart is unable to check for pending ABI based upgrades. The ABI
check requires to get the full version string including the compile
date of the image file. On x86(_64) needrestart is able to parse the
kernel's boot header. Other archs do not have this header so
needrestart tries to infer the kernel version from the filename (like
update-grub does).
As a workaround you might set $nrconf{kernelhints} = 0 at your
Cubietruck's needrestart.conf to disable the kernel check temporarily.
HTH,
Thomas
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