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

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Khusro Jaleel wrote:

> 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.

Yep, I've seen the same.  XML errors on rendering pages, or the search box not
working but everything else seeming fine.

jh