No reboot detection in batch mode

[schoekek]

Hi,

i have installaled the last version from Debian Backports on Jessie (2.7-1~bpo8+1) and no reboot detect is visible.

[06:52:37] user@dev:~> sudo needrestart -bkv
[main] eval /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf
[main] running in root-mode
[main] detected systemd
NEEDRESTART-VER: 2.7
[Kernel] Linux: kernel release 3.16.0-4-amd64, kernel version #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29)
Failed to load NeedRestart::Kernel::kFreeBSD: [Kernel/kFreeBSD] Not running on GNU/kFreeBSD!
[Kernel/Linux] /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 => 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (2016-03-06) [3.16.0-4-amd64]
[Kernel/Linux] Expected linux version: 3.16.0-4-amd64
NEEDRESTART-KCUR: 3.16.0-4-amd64
NEEDRESTART-KEXP: 3.16.0-4-amd64
NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 2
[06:52:43] user@dev:~> echo $?
0

On normal needrestart call, the ncurses hint for required reboot is visible...

[liske]

Hi,

the reboot information is encoded in NEEDRESTART-KSTA. Sadly the documentation is missing a detailed description, taken from the perl/lib/NeedRestart/Kernel.pm:

use constant {
    NRK_UNKNOWN    => 0,   # uknown result (i.e. no image found)
    NRK_NOUPGRADE  => 1,   # kernel is up-to-date
    NRK_ABIUPGRADE => 2,   # ABI upgrade pending
    NRK_VERUPGRADE => 3,   # higher kernel version pending
};

HTH,
Thomas

[schoekek]

ah, ok.
thx for the information.

[MarcinOrlowski]

Can you at least add note that to README.md? I just wasted some time prior finding this ;(