** Description changed: [Impact] needrestart shouldn't be writing to /run/reboot-required for kernel updates, that should be reserved to update-manager [Test plan] We can use the mockuname thing from the autopkgtests to simulate a kernel version mismatch: + # in a fresh VM pull-lp-source needrestart noble cd needrestart-3.6 gcc -shared -fPIC -ldl debian/tests/mockuname.c -o mockuname.so LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/mockuname.so apt install hello # needrestart should complain that the system should be restarted test ! -x /run/reboot-required || echo test failed [Where problems could occur] That particular patch seems on the safer side, nothing in the code relies on this file being written to. [Original report] On Noble, I see this in my motd: *** System restart required *** Pending kernel upgrade! Running kernel version: 6.8.0-22-generic Diagnostics: The currently running kernel version is not the expected kernel version 6.8.0-31-generic. I found this code in needrestart: /usr/sbin/needrestart: 'The currently running kernel version is {kversion} which is not the expected kernel version {eversion}.', I'm told that it is incorrect for needrestart to be injecting this into motd. Steve points out that needrestart isn't installed on desktop and the behaviour shouldn't be different here, thinks that this shouldn't be injected into motd, and asked for a bug report for this. needrestart 3.6-7ubuntu4
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