Did something change with reboot notifications?

I’m curious if something has changed that I missed regarding reboot notifications after running updates that involve kernels?

I used to get these all the time, and only now it just hit me that I haven’t seen one for at least a month or two.

Running KDE 6 and have both mainline and lts kernels installed.

I’m not running KDE but have been getting reboot notices, one just yesterday.

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Interesting… I’ll have to look into this deeper now that I know it’s just me.

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It’s working for me on Kde.

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Ditto, but it only warns for the running kernel, so if I am running mainline and LTS updates, there is no warning. But, that being said, all kernels update all the time, so you should be getting notifications…

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Can confirm.
I used to get a lot more too. Now I get close to none. I was told I could re-change the frequency in some .conf but I did not write any of that down.

I got a reboot notification on my update yesterday and seem to get one of those at least once a week. So they are not gone on KDE for me.

yeah got one for the new kernel yesterday, very surprised and happy btw, but the last 50 kernels nada.

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@Nomad - have you accidently silenced all notifications? There is a switch on the notification widget in the top left corner… I think.

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Do not disturb toggle (picture from the web).

For the reboot notifications? Are you sure that isn’t the frequency of the update notifications?

Not sure of much these days :slight_smile:

Just tested with XFCE, KDE/x11 and KDE/wayland, and installing package linux (which I’m currently running) showed a notification to recommend a reboot.

Could be a problem with your notification stuff?

No reboot notification issues for me running KDE on my desktop.

I run Gnome and some minutes ago I updated my kernel and got that reboot notification.

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Test if you are able to see notifications at all.

notify-send "test" "this a notification"

Notifications not silenced. Very strange as I receive notifications for other apps.

This works just fine. Also, email and messenger notifications work too.

I’m going to do some deep digging this weekend when I got more time. I know for sure something is going on because kernel updates absolutely used to at least once a week give me a reboot notification.

You could also check that files

  • /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/eos-reboot-required.hook
  • /usr/bin/eos-reboot-required2

are OK in your system. They include the main logic for the reboot notification.

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Mine mysteriously came back.
LXDE: never got nothing ever
Recent switch to Cinnamon: I get all the reboot notices.

Correlation (for me).

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Sounds like some library issue… Are you using AUR packages that override or replace any native package? Or some kind of update issue?