# ‘Oops. The software powering this discussion…’ error after updating through UI

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You probably need to move to a new vm with an up to date os, though you may be able to just upgrade the kernel.

3.11 was released a decade ago. What distribution are you running? What does

`cat /etc/issue`

Say?

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