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Q: Upgrading to an element release running a newer version of LINX, but element can't seem to start due to this error:

FATAL: Module linx already in kernel.
FATAL ERROR: Failure (1) launching /usr/local/element/file_cache/element_3.2.2/bin/linux-x86_64/elemLinxMgr

 A: Certain systems expose a timing problem where LINX can be auto-loaded by other system components before the element LINX manager can deal with it. Thus element startup is hindered by the fact that it believes LINX is already loaded. To get around this, LINX can be made to use the older method of insmod/rmmod (which was used in prior LINX releases) - rather than he current method of modprobe/depmod - for loading/unloading LINX kernel. There is a patch available from support which takes care of this change also. (reference CR-719)