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 Message 21519 
 bp to All 
 Re: Bookworm update behavior 
 06 Nov 25 11:30:01 
 
MSGID: <10ego93$p0jh$1@dont-email.me> cf205d3b
REPLY: <10egfil$m7ia$1@druck.eternal-september.org> 49ae53f4
PID: PyGate 1.5
TID: PyGate/Linux 1.5
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: 1100
REPLYADDR bp@www.zefox.net
REPLYTO 3:633/10 UUCP
druck  wrote:
> On 05/11/2025 03:05, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> Bookworm prompts freqently, sometimes daily, that updates are available.
>> If I click the install button the machine does its gymnastics and says
>> everything is up to date. At least outwardly, no change is apparent.
>> 
>> Somewhere around noon the next day I _do_ notice changes. Usually
>> it's in the form of some mischief; YouTube stops working right,
>> WiFi stops working right, something like that. Occasionally, an
>> existing misfeature dissapears, ie, YouTube works better, etc.
>> 
>> Am I mistaken? At least about the overnight delay?
> 
> The Pixel desktop updater works in the background downloading and 
> applying the changes. Unless you have not done an update many months it 
> should only take a couple of minutes, except if your WiFi is 
> exceptionally slow.

As a rule, the system(s) report "system is up to date" within a
few minutes. One of them is a Pi5 with wired ethernet. the other
is a Pi2 on WiFi. 

How long might it take for services to restart
after that point on the machine with wired ethernet? 

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska


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