[CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?

Tue Jun 28 20:43:58 UTC 2011
Khusro Jaleel <mailing-lists at kerneljack.com>

On 06/28/2011 07:17 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:13:13 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org>  wrote:
>> 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).

I have experienced strange behaviour from Firefox once or twice after 
doing a yum update. I believe it was not because Firefox was updated but 
because a bunch of GTK related stuff was updated which Firefox uses, 
hence why it got confused. I don't remember it's exact odd behaviour in 
that situation, but I just remember I had to logout/login again to fix 
it. Perhaps I also restarted GDM while at the login prompt for good 
measure but a reboot was NOT necessary.