Posted by cookiesunshinex on October 1, 2010 at 12:43am
Apologies in advance is this is a stupid question, but when logging into my Pantheon 1.1 beta AMI via SSH, I see this message:
A newer build of the Ubuntu lucid server image is available.
It is named 'release' and has build serial '20100923'.
*** System restart required ***So it got me to thinking, if I shutdown the OS on an instance, the instance goes away, so how do I apply updates that require a reboot?
Is this update really necessary?
Comments
re: Ubuntu updates available restart required (but how with AMI)
While all data on EC2-based instances will disappear if the instance is stopped, they can be re-booted without loosing data.
I think this release from Cannonical addresses some issues around mounting and high cpu loads. I've not upgraded an instance to a new "release" before - I would make sure you have backups before applying these updates.
Hope this helps,
Greg
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