error messages during dnf update??

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Just did a dnf update and notice a whole lot of messages 
like this.

hardlink: cannot link ./include/net/devlink.h to 
/usr/src/kernels/5.17.11-200.fc35.x86_64/./include/net/de
vlink.h.hardlink-temporary: File exists

+------------------------------------------------------------+
 Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor 
(Retired)     
 mailto:[e-mail]                            
 mailto:[e-mail]
 Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
 G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 16/06/2022 15.04, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> Just did a dnf update and notice a whole lot of messages
> like this.
>
> hardlink: cannot link ./include/net/devlink.h to
> /usr/src/kernels/5.17.11-200.fc35.x86_64/./include/net/de
> vlink.h.hardlink-temporary: File exists
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------+
>   Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
> (Retired)
>   mailto:[e-mail]
>   mailto:[e-mail]
>   Guam - Where America's Day Begins
>   G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
> +------------------------------------------------------------+

See thread from two keeks ago
    "hardlink" errors during weekly "dnf upgrade"
The conclusion there was that it is a packaging error, and to remove the kernel debug packages:
    $ sudo dnf remove 'kernel-debug-devel*'
Worked for me.

HTH

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 16 Jun 2022 at 15:24, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:24:01 +1000
Subject:        	Re: error messages during dnf update??
To:             	[e-mail]
From:           	Eyal Lebedinsky 
Send reply to:  	Community support for Fedora 
users
> On 16/06/2022 15.04, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> > Just did a dnf update and notice a whole lot of messages
> > like this.
> >
> > hardlink: cannot link ./include/net/devlink.h to
> > /usr/src/kernels/5.17.11-200.fc35.x86_64/./include/net/de
> > vlink.h.hardlink-temporary: File exists
> >
> > +------------------------------------------------------------+
> >   Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
> > (Retired)
> >   mailto:[e-mail]
> >   mailto:[e-mail]
> >   Guam - Where America's Day Begins
> >   G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
> >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
> > +------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> See thread from two keeks ago
>    "hardlink" errors during weekly "dnf upgrade"
> The conclusion there was that it is a packaging error, and to remove the kernel debug packages:
>    $ sudo dnf remove 'kernel-debug-devel*'
> Worked for me.
>
> HTH

Don't have that installed?
/usr/src/kernels/5.17.11-200.fc35.x86_64 is the directory 
directory that has all the stuff, and it isn't one of the 3 
kernels in boot??

kernel-headers-5.17.11-200.fc35.x86_64 is the only 
package that has the 5.17.11, but if I tell it to remove that 
it wants to remove 84 other packages??

On two other machines the /usr/src/kernels only has the 3 
active kernels listed.

So not sure why this one got left over, or why there isn't a 
newer kernel-headers for the active kernels.

Thanks for info.
> -- 
> Eyal Lebedinsky ([e-mail])
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]
> Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure

+------------------------------------------------------------+
 Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor 
(Retired)     
 mailto:[e-mail]                            
 mailto:[e-mail]
 Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
 G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+

[stan]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:22:12 +1000
"Michael D. Setzer II via users"  wrote:
> So not sure why this one got left over, or why there isn't a 
> newer kernel-headers for the active kernels.

The kernel-headers is a separate package, and it is only updated if the
header files actually change.  So, the kernel can be newer than the
headers package.