constant upgrade reboots fedora 11

[imhennessy]

Hey,
I've got fedora 11 going on a Dell Inspiron 700m, and it recently started demanding that I reboot after just about every update/upgrade. These updates are just the automatic ones that I get system tray notices about, I'm not seeking out new hardware drivers.

I guess I'm just wondering if there's been a spate of kernel updates recently, or my install is acting funny, or Fedora's just going to want to be rebooted every day after it updates.

ivan

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

cat /etc/fedora-release
uname -a
su -
yum -repolist

[daark.child]

There has been a recent kernel update, so it could be why you are being nagged to reboot.

[imhennessy]

$cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)         
$ uname -a
Linux Wee 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 00:44:39 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates/metalink                                        |  12 kB     00:00
repo id               repo name                                 status
fedora                Fedora 11 - i386                          enabled: 13,289
updates               Fedora 11 - i386 - Updates                enabled:  4,631
repolist: 17,920

I'm pretty sure it's not just a kernel update, this has been going on for almost a week. The most recent package update requiring a reboot is dhclient.

ivan

[imhennessy]

My most recent update included kernel and kernel-firmware packages. I haven't had an automatic update for just over a day. The other recent change is that I upgraded from 512mb to 2gb of ram. I don't see how this could have changed anything.

yum upgrade tells me there are several packages to be upgraded, but the auto update hasn't brought up anything.

I will post again if anything changes, or after a couple of days with no change.

ivan

[imhennessy]

I've been either on battery XOR on the network of late, so no auto updates. When I forced one, it wanted to reboot and listed the cause as an update of Qt-x11. Seems like maybe it really just wants me to restart X. So, it might be that my install is assuming I'm an idiot and can't just log out and back in, or it might be a little cracked.

ivan

[daark.child]

I don't do automatic updates preferring to use yum manually. I never get annoying messages about reboots being needed.