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On Friday 11 December 2009 13:02:36 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Many thanks Alan, |
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> so I conclude that rebooting IS necessary to get the new libraries used, |
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> isn't it? |
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No, not at all, you conclude wrongly. |
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Unix works the way it does precisely so you *don't* require a reboot to use |
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new libraries. They are already there and fully installed and fully |
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operational. You just have to start using them - this may require restarting |
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the relevant app that uses them and perhaps ldconfig. |
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Windows is the brain-dead johnnie-come-lately here that requires reboots. But |
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then again, Windows requires a reboot when it detects the pointer has moved so |
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that isn't surprising |
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> On the other hand running applications should continue to run, which is |
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> not always the case, e.g. recently using cvs as non-root user just |
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> hanged. Rebooting the system solved it (since I update my system nearly |
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> each day). |
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It was probably trying to use different versions of two matched libs. You |
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should not have needed a reboot to fix that. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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