{"id":5524,"date":"2023-10-04T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:07:29","slug":"how-to-determine-if-ubuntu-needs-a-reboot-after-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-determine-if-ubuntu-needs-a-reboot-after-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"How to determine if Ubuntu Needs a Reboot after an update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Typically after a Linux Kernel update, you will want to reboot your machine to take advantage of the new kernel.  But how do you know if you need to reboot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, there is a simple way to check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>cat \/var\/run\/reboot-required<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If it returns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">*** System restart required ***<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we should reboot the machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/how-to-find-out-if-my-ubuntudebian-linux-server-needs-a-reboot\/\">https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/how-to-find-out-if-my-ubuntudebian-linux-server-needs-a-reboot\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically after a Linux Kernel update, you will want to reboot your machine to take advantage of the new kernel. But how do you know if you need to reboot? Fortunately, there is a simple way to check. cat \/var\/run\/reboot-required &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-determine-if-ubuntu-needs-a-reboot-after-an-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[761,7,681,1579,49,248,1580,363],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-kernel","tag-linux-2","tag-reboot","tag-reboot-required","tag-ubuntu-2","tag-update","tag-updates","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}