Can't build Qubes 4.0 ISO

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Alexander Barinov

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Jun 3, 2021, 1:44:06 AM6/3/21

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Hello,

I got a new laptop, so new that 5.4 kernel says "unknown processor" and panics being unable to initialise APIC. I then tried a 4.1 build that uses latest kernel and it boots and installs just fine. So I'm on a quest to build Qubes 4.0 ISO that uses kernel-latest instead of the default 5.4.

Steps I'm taking:

1. Install vanilla fedora-32 (also tried fedora-30) template

2. sudo dnf install git createrepo rpm-build rpm-sign make python3-sh rpmdevtools rpm-sign dialog perl-open python3-pyyaml perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Digest-SHA

3. git clone git://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder.git

4. Create builder.conf that builds ISO using pre-compiled packages from repository:

VERBOSE ?= 2

BACKEND_VMM ?= xen

GIT_BASEURL ?= https://github.com

GIT_PREFIX ?= QubesOS/qubes-

RELEASE ?= 4.0

DIST_DOM0 ?= fc25

DISTS_VM ?=

BRANCH_installer_qubes_os = release4.0

USE_QUBES_REPO_TESTING=1

COMPONENTS = \

installer-qubes-os \

linux-yum \

builder-rpm

BUILDER_PLUGINS ?= builder-rpm

USE_QUBES_REPO_VERSION = $(RELEASE)

INSTALLER_KICKSTART=/home/user/qubes-src/installer-qubes-os/conf/iso-full-online.ks

5. make install-deps ; make get-sources

6. In qubes-src/installer-qubes-os/conf/comps-qubes.xml I made kernel and kernel-qubes optional and kernel-latest mandatory

7. make qubes ; make iso

Now, whtever I do, this always fails at the same point:

...

2021-06-03 05:27:15,662: (600/690) kbd-2.0.3-3.fc24.x86_64

(600/690) kbd-2.0.3-3.fc24.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:15,709: (601/690) anaconda-tui-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

(601/690) anaconda-tui-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:15,727: (602/690) anaconda-core-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

(602/690) anaconda-core-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:15,910: (603/690) anaconda-gui-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

(603/690) anaconda-gui-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:15,951: (604/690) anaconda-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

(604/690) anaconda-1000:25.20.9-17.fc25.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:16,182: (605/690) metacity-3.12.0-4.fc24.x86_64

(605/690) metacity-3.12.0-4.fc24.x86_64

2021-06-03 05:27:16,832: (606/690) nfs-utils-1:2.1.1-5.rc4.fc25.x86_64

(606/690) nfs-utils-1:2.1.1-5.rc4.fc25.x86_64

FATAL ERROR: python callback ??? failed, aborting!

Makefile:58: recipe for target 'iso-installer' failed

make[1]: *** [iso-installer] Error 1

--> build failed!

make: *** [Makefile:564: iso] Error 1

The order of the packages might be different but if always fails right after nfs-utils package. I checked and this is not a problem of memory or disk space, fedora-30 and fedora-32 produce the same result.