At Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:13:13 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Robert Heller wrote: > > * snip * > > >>> A reboot is also required in the cases of a glibc update > >>> unless you take the time to restart all services that > >>> are running and logout and then log back in to > >>> interactive shell sessions. > >> > >> I've also noticed that Firefox will not operate correctly > >> after some updates, and a reboot seems to fix this. > > > > Strange. Never needed to do that. Of course, I *exit* > > from FF *before* doing a yum update when I know a new FF > > is in the pipeline. > > Maybe that's because my machine is running generally 24/7, > and I do quite often leave FF running on 2-3 desktops, with > several tabs open at once. Then yum runs each night as a > cron job. But even so, if I shut down all instances of FF > and start one fresh instance again, IIRC I still seem to > need to do a reboot *sometimes* to get things back in sync > again. My machine also runs 24/7, but never run yum unattended and never leave FF running (I actually logout of my desktop machine when I am not sitting at it). > > Kind Regards, > > Keith Roberts > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Websites: > http://www.karsites.net > http://www.php-debuggers.net > http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk > > All email addresses are challenge-response protected with > TMDA [http://tmda.net] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments