Sometime starting fairly recently, dnf update runs some kind of extra check and reports to me that “you are currently running kernel x and there is an ABI compatible upgrade pending.” It then recommends a restart. It also always recommends restarting the wsdd service.
There is no kernel update pending - I am on the latest RL9.3 kernel (362.24.1.el9_3.0.1)
It looks to me like dnf is automatically running a needrestart command, but I didn’t ask for that to my knowledge. I did install the needrestart package, but I didn’t expect dnf to autorun it.
I have tried rebooting. I have tried a dnf refresh. Also, restarting wsdd doesn’t clear the message that I need to restart wsdd.
So far I’ve just been ignoring this and everything is running fine. What’s going on and how do I stop it?
A snippet from the output of needrestart -v:
[Kernel/Linux] using RPM version sorting
[Kernel/Linux] Expected linux version: 5.14.0-362.24.1.el9_3.0.1.x86_64
Pending kernel upgrade!
Running kernel version:
5.14.0-362.24.1.el9_3.0.1.x86_64
Diagnostics:
The currently running kernel has an ABI compatible upgrade pending.
You can see in the snippet that the running kernel and the expected kernel are the same.