How do you deal with that?
Probably one should have a canary system that is rebooted every day. In a home setup we usually don't hand either the spare machine or the spare time to deal with it, or both.
Probably one should have a canary system that is rebooted every day. In a home setup we usually don't hand either the spare machine or the spare time to deal with it, or both.
If there is an urgent update that you need to apply at a time when rebooting would be an issue apply the update and leave yourself a reminder that the system is running a configure that you don't know is bootable. When a reasonable time for a reboot comes around take it.
I take it a step further. I usually reboot before updates, too. Make sure I won't chase updates as an issue if something else broke.