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A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
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PopOS wants to reboot too often #2268

Open ghost opened 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="21.10" ID=pop ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian" PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 21.10" VERSION_ID="21.10" HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com" SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy" VERSION_CODENAME=impish UBUNTU_CODENAME=impish LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

Issue/Bug Description: So many package updates within the past week have asked to reboot the system. I can understand doing this occasionally for kernel updates, but it's come up at least three times within the past week. What's going on? Not even Windows wants to reboot this much. Part of why I use other operating systems is to get away from the "you just changed your font size, now reboot six times" nonsense that Windows forces on its unfortunate users.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

Install PopOS. Wait for a package upgrade to install. Reboot a few times, several times per week.

Expected behavior: One reboot maybe once every few weeks or month.

Other Notes: I'm not trying to be 1337 by having huge system uptime or anything like that. I know that I can reboot the system whenever I want to install these updates. It's just inconvenient and I don't see why it's necessary, especially so often. I have disk encryption enabled on this machine so I have to enter the key twice (because apparently the system needs to reboot both to install updates and after installing updates?). I feel that I need to babysit the computer a lot which wasn't the case when I first bought this machine from System76 last year.

jackpot51 commented 2 years ago

We do low level updates extremely often. There's no real reason you have to reboot every time the system asks, but often, those updates do require it and that is why it prompts.

jacobgkau commented 2 years ago

I would personally recommend not installing updates when you are in the middle of work/not in a good position to reboot (or to restart any applications that might have gotten updated). Reducing the noise of update notifications is something that's being actively worked on by making them configurable: https://github.com/pop-os/upgrade/pull/225

For things such as GNOME Shell updates, restarting GNOME Shell with Alt-F2, r, Enter can be an alternative to actually rebooting. (That obviously doesn't work for lower level updates such as the kernel.)