Il giorno dom, 04/11/2018 alle 14.32 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
Has anyone else seen strange behaviour from tracer?
Yes, there is something strange.

I have update some packages this morning and do not have reboot. If I run "sudo tracer" none is show.

If I run "sudo lsof|grep delete" I found many system's binary apps update but running old version (deleted), 

[root@dodo:~]# lsof 2>/dev/null|grep deleted|wc -l
3620

for example NetworkManager:

[root@dodo:~]# grep NetworkManager-1 /var/log/dnf.log
  NetworkManager-1:1.12.4-2.fc29.x86_64                NetworkManager-adsl-1:1.12.4-2.fc29.x86_64                      
2018-11-04T10:21:13Z DDEBUG /var/cache/dnf/updates-0b4cc238d1aa4ffe/packages/NetworkManager-1.12.4-2.fc29.x86_64.rpm eliminato
[root@dodo:~]# lsof|grep NetworkMa.*deleted
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
NetworkMa  1077                    root  txt       REG              253,2   3095264     446801 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (deleted)
NetworkMa  1077  1081 gmain        root  txt       REG              253,2   3095264     446801 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (deleted)
NetworkMa  1077  1083 gdbus        root  txt       REG              253,2   3095264     446801 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (deleted)
[root@dodo:~]# ll -i /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
446800 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3095264 29 ott 18.41 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager

The I-Node of binary is changed because the binari it was update.

If I restart my NB I do not see anymore deleted flag for system appls and I-node, for example of NM, match

Seem tracer not work anymore ...

-- 
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 28 Workstation)