Updating Fedora 27 errors in Qubes 4.0?

[sm...@tutamail.com]

I'll begin with a "thank you" to the Qubes developers and community...thank you for your efforts!

I tried to update my Fedora 27 template using the Qubes Manager GUI and get these type of errors:

- Cannot install soundtouch....
- Cannot install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-fre...

I had a similar issue the other day with errors for Pulse Audio.

I ran:
sudo dnf update --allowerasing

While it seemed to correct the Pulse Audio error, the new soundtouch error don't seem to go away.

I use Fedora as my sys-Net only, Debian 9 for all others.

My questions are:

What is the best manual command to run when this happens?
sudo dnf update --allowerasing
sudo dnf update --best --allowerasing
Other?

Why does this issue happen with just Fedora? Is this something to do with my configuration? I had Fedora 28 as a template but ran into these type of errors.

Any help would be appreciated...

[yreb]

So, you installed some extra software in the Fed-27 template that won't
update?

and you tried --best --allowerasing already ?


What you use for sys-net and "all others" should not matter. You still
have the Fed-28 template, but are using Fed-27 ?

It doesn't make sense what your saying. The "errors" are in both Fed-27
and Fed-28 during VM Manager updates, and Command Line updates or ?

[sm...@tutamail.com]

Thanks I think I found the root cause (Thanks Andrew Wong): https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4072

To clarify I am experiencing this issue with Fedora 27 (the template I am using for my sys-net). Atone point I was using Fedora 28 and had the same issue.

I just tried:

sudo dnf update --best --allowerasing

It appears to be working...my question is:

Is this the best I can do? Is this the right command?

Thanks again...

[sm...@tutamail.com]

While this seems to be a Fedora issue, I am still getting stuck on updating my now new fedora 28 templates(I had to reinstall my Qubes OS due to a crash). It appears that not being able to update pulse audio is preventing all the other updates in my Fedora 28 template.

Is there a recommended solution?

I am a newbie so any basic commands would be surely appreciated....

Thx

[Stuart Perkins]

What I did was in a command window on the template...Qubes 3.2

sudo dnf upgrade --allowerasing --best

and note the modules removed.

Then I installed the modules in the same window...

sudo dnf install puleaudio.... (I forget their exact names right now, but there were two)

This appears to have worked, as I am now running that fedora-28 template for sys-net, sys-firewall, sys-usb etc... with no bootup issues.

Just be sure and clone it before you do in case you have to restore it.

It still doesn't work with a straight "upgrade" from the VM manager.

If this doesn't work for 4... well, that's why you clone it first.

[sm...@tutamail.com]

That seemed to work....Thx

As you said I did the following commands:

sudo dnf upgrade --allowerasing --best

then reinstalled the packages that were to be removed by above command:

sudo dnf install qubes-vm-recommended...something, something
sudo dnf install pulse audio...something, something

I still get the pulseaudio error when I try to update via GUI but it appears as if the other packages were updated in the fedora 28 template.

After cloning the fedora 28 I still have a fresh template should this be resolved in the near future.

Thanks again for a workable solution...