GNOME Notification when System was Updated

0xA1B2 · October 3, 2019, 3:00pm

Hello,

when CL updates the kernel I need to reinstall the nvidia driver. It would be nice to get a notification in GNOME when that happens.

Thanks.

eadams · October 3, 2019, 5:05pm

Would the notification be before you reboot the system or after? When I ssh into my system I often see this message but only when clear linux auto updated.

A kernel update is available: you may wish to reboot the system.
Some system services need a restart.

0xA1B2 · October 3, 2019, 5:12pm

It would be good to have that notification before reboot to activate a new kernel. The effect with the nvidia driver is that GNOME becomes slow once a new kernel is loaded, and it can be confused with CPU performance/fan settings on my notebook as I switch between performance and silent mode.

A little notification in the GNOME desktop would make things more clear and I would know I have to prepare for the driver reinstall.

puneetse · October 3, 2019, 6:25pm

You might add onto this feature request:

github.com/clearlinux/clr-service-restart

Add desktop notification for clr-service-restart

opened 06:09PM - 20 Jun 19 UTC

puneetse

When services need to be manually restarted after a system update, clr-service-r…estart provides a useful terminal/SSH MOTD notification. I think it would also be a useful message to have as a desktop notification so graphical users know services should be restarted for an update to complete. libnotify could be levered with `notify-send` so it works across multiple desktop environment. Perhaps it can be added to this: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/clr-service-restart/blob/master/0001-Motd-updating-script-for-clearlinux.patch

For the nvidia driver, DKMS should be rebuilding the driver for you automatically when there is a kernel update. A reinstallation should only be required if one of the conflicting files gets overwritten (from the mesa package) or there is a compatibility issue between the kernel version and nvidia driver (in which case you’d probably need to update the driver, not just reinstall it).