Ubuntu
needrestart package

  1. Bug #2068543
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 2068543

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Nick Tait (nick.t) wrote :

I have noticed the same thing on 3 servers after they were upgraded to 24.04.

I also tested the following:

sudo NEEDRESTART_MODE=l apt full-upgrade --autoremove

i.e. specifying the restart mode in an environment variable (which I found by Googling), but this also had no effect.

I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me as though when needrestart is run manually, it DOES observe the settings in /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf, but when it is run automatically by apt, it DOESN'T observe the settings and always restarts services. Could apt be passing in a NEEDRESTART_MODE=a environment variable to cause this behaviour?