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Business, Space, Technology and Society

Starship to Mars

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Amazing CGI.

[Update a while later]

And then there’s this:

Read the thread. Most people think (correctly) that this is nuts.

I’m willing to agree that it’s a religion, but rocks don’t have rights. The moon is just a very large rock.

Administrative, Technology and Society

Fedora Upgrade Issue

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When doing an upgrade with dnf (going from 34 to 35), I’m getting a slew of transaction test errors like these:

file /usr/bin/qemu-alpha-static from install of qemu-user-static-2:6.1.0-16.fc35.x86_64 conflicts with file from package qemu-user-static-alpha-2:6.2.0-17.fc36.x86_64
file /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-alpha-static.stp from install of qemu-user-static-2:6.1.0-16.fc35.x86_64 conflicts with file from package qemu-user-static-alpha-2:6.2.0-17.fc36.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/pycrypto-2.6.1-py3.10.egg-info from install of python3-crypto-2.6.1-36.fc35.x86_64 conflicts with file from package python3-crypto-2.6.1-39.fc36.x86_64
file /usr/lib/udev/rename_device from install of initscripts-10.15-1.fc35.x86_64 conflicts with file from package initscripts-rename-device-10.16-3.fc36.x86_64

Anyone know what’s going on, and how to fix it?

[Update Monday morning]

OK, the problem is that I’m trying to upgrade to 35 when in fact I’m running 36. And the weird thing is that ‘uname -r’ says it’s 34, while /etc/fedora-release says it’s 36. And when I boot it, it’s using a 34 kernel. So, I decided to upgrade to 37 instead, since in actuality, other than the kernel, all my packages are 36. That upgrade went well, but I don’t know what will happen if I actually do a reboot into the new version. I’m asking people on the Fedora forum. The mystery is why it’s running on a 34 kernel.

[Bumped]