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memfd use by QtQml causes false positives

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With new enough kernel/plasmashell/KDE/Qt needrestart reports false-positives on memfd files used by Qt applications: ``` # needrestart Scanning processes... Scanning candidates... Scanning processor microcode... Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems...

kushal-kumaran

After updating other packages needsrestart displays "User sessions running outdated binaries:" while needrestart-session displays none

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After updating or installing other packages with `apt-get install package` or `apt-get upgrade` needsrestart displays e.g.: ``` Scanning processes... Scanning candidates... Scanning processor microcode... Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems...

mYnDstrEAm

Multiple kernel branches

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Arch Linux gives users the choice to install multiple kernels to their systems. E.g. I have currently `linux-mainline` and `linux-next` installed. However, if I update `linux-next`, `needrestart` warns me that...

fossdd

Whenever I run needrestart (version 3.6) on my machine with an AMD processor, I get the message `Failed to check for processor microcode upgrades.` `sudo needrestart -v -w` output: ```...

korrat

zxyrepf

batch mode yields different kernel results as root versus user

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I'm using needrestart in batch mode in a script which runs in user space. It returns an indication that a restart is needed, but when run as root, it does...

galentx

needrestart always ignores updated libraries in LXC/LXD instances. It seems that it is regression of #233. ## Environment * Ubuntu 22.04 LTS * needrestart 3.5 (package version 3.5-5ubuntu2.1, backported many...

m-shibata

Default notifications with unattended-upgrades repeat twice per minute

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Without modifying needrestart's notify configuration, needrestart is really annoying. I installed needrestart because when I update / install packages manually, it then asks me in the terminal which services would...

Zocker1999NET

Please don't list unattended-upgrades.service as restartable

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Unattended-upgrades service does very little that can be affected by a library update, and it's main purpose is delaying shutdown to ensure that package upgrades are not interrupted in the...

rbalint

Upgrading libgcc didn't reexec systemd

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After upgraded the `libgcc` package, using `fuser` showed that `systemd` (PID 1) wasn't using the new shared library, and `fuser` only changed to showing it using the new library after...

matthew-cline