OpenSuSE Tumbleweed notes

After zypper dup (dist-upgrade) or zypper up (update) a zypper ps will list processes using deleted files (i.e. processes that likely need to be restarted).

Some processes that can be restarted without reboot:

• vmtoolsd or vmware-vmblock-fuse
  • rcvmtoolsd restart
• irqbalance
  • rcirqbalance restart
• login
  • logoff
• polkitd or dbus-daemon
  • rcdbus restart
• nscd
  • rcnscd restart
• sshd
  • rcsshd restart
  • logoff/logon if you are holding one of the ssh sessions
• named
  • rcnamed restart
• cron
  • rccron restart
• ntpd
  • rcntp restart
• smbd
  • rcsmd restart
• nmbd
  • rcnmb restart
•  cupsd
  • rccups restart
• dmeventd
  • dmeventd -R
• snapperd
  • rcdbus restart
• shellinaboxd
  • rcshellinabox restart
• monit
  • rcmonit restart

• auditd

  • rcauditd restart

• haveged

  • rchaveged restart
• systemd
  • systemctl daemon-reexec

To research

• dhcpcd
• rs:main
• agetty
• lvmetad
• agetty
• dmeventd

Some processes that require a reboot:

• systemd-journald
• systemd-udevd
• systemd-logind
• login
• (sd-pam
  • although maybe not, but better safe than sorry
• gpg-agent
• wickedd, wickedd-auto4,wickedd-dhcp6,wickedd-dhcp4 and wickedd-nanny

–jeroen