After reinstalling then removing Debian 9 TemplateVM, unable to install the template from the repository.

[duncanguthrie]

Qubes OS version:

R4.0-rc3

Affected TemplateVMs:

debian-9

---

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

I encountered the behavior twice across two independent [re]installs.
The approximate steps to reproduce it (although it seems fairly random) are as follows:
Reinstall the debian-9 TemplateVM. Then, remove the debian-9 TemplateVM. This did in fact result in me seeing #3294, which I was able to work around the second time.
After removing it, I found I was unable to fetch the TemplateVM from the repository. However, I could search for qubes-template via qubes-dom0-update and a few results would return, but not all of the expected results.

Expected behavior:

sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-9 should install the Debian 9 template.

Actual behavior:

sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-9 presents the error message "No match for argument: qubes-template-debian-9", because it cannot find the package for some reason. Trying it with --enablerepo qubes-templates-itl or --enablerepo qubes-templates-community presents an identical result.

The output of sudo qubes-dom0-update --action=search qubes-template is as follows:
Using sys-firewall as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time...
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:00 ago on Thu Jan 18 00:00:01 2018.
=============== Name Matched: qubes-template ====================
qubes-template-debian-8.noarch : Qubes template for debian-8
qubes-template-fedora-25-minimal.noarch: Qubes template for fedora-25-minimal
qubes-template-fedora-26-minimal.noarch: Qubes template for fedora-26-minimal
No packages downloaded
[...]
Error: No matches found.

General notes:

---

Related issues:

#3294

[marmarek]

Have you removed debian-9 template using qvm-remove, or dnf remove? If the former, you need to remove qubes-template-debian-9 package to be able to reinstall it back.

[marmarek]

Have you removed debian-9 template using qvm-remove, or dnf remove? If the former, you need to remove qubes-template-debian-9 package to be able to reinstall it back.

[andrewdavidwong]

Have you removed debian-9 template using qvm-remove, or dnf remove? If the former, you need to remove qubes-template-debian-9 package to be able to reinstall it back.

Indeed, and the full procedure is documented here:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reinstall-template/

[andrewdavidwong]

Have you removed debian-9 template using qvm-remove, or dnf remove? If the former, you need to remove qubes-template-debian-9 package to be able to reinstall it back.

Indeed, and the full procedure is documented here:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reinstall-template/

[tasket]

This may be related to issue #3435

[tasket]

This may be related to issue #3435

[lunarthegrey]

Should be able to close this one right?

[lunarthegrey]

Should be able to close this one right?

[andrewdavidwong]

Should be able to close this one right?

Why?

[andrewdavidwong]

Should be able to close this one right?

Why?

[lunarthegrey]

@andrewdavidwong user didn't follow documentation?

[lunarthegrey]

@andrewdavidwong user didn't follow documentation?

[duncanguthrie]

Hi,

I did a bit more testing. Here's what I had to report.

I had removed all other domains' dependency on the debian-9 template.

I then proceeded to remove the template with qvm-remove.

I then proceeded to remove the template package with dnf remove.

This seemed to succeed. Except that certain files had not in fact been deleted, so this had actually failed.

This resulted in me getting confused about being unable to reinstall the template correctly.

Apologies for the late reply.

[duncanguthrie]

Hi,

I did a bit more testing. Here's what I had to report.

I had removed all other domains' dependency on the debian-9 template.

I then proceeded to remove the template with qvm-remove.

I then proceeded to remove the template package with dnf remove.

This seemed to succeed. Except that certain files had not in fact been deleted, so this had actually failed.

This resulted in me getting confused about being unable to reinstall the template correctly.

Apologies for the late reply.

[andrewdavidwong]

@duncanguthrie: Well, were you able to reinstall the template or not?

[andrewdavidwong]

@duncanguthrie: Well, were you able to reinstall the template or not?

[andrewdavidwong]

Closing this for now due to the lack of response. If you revisit the matter in the future, or if anyone would like the issue to remain open, please leave a comment, and we'll be happy to reopen this. Thank you.

[andrewdavidwong]

Closing this for now due to the lack of response. If you revisit the matter in the future, or if anyone would like the issue to remain open, please leave a comment, and we'll be happy to reopen this. Thank you.