qubes-update-gui always has "updates available for 1 qubes"

cubit

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Mar 5, 2019, 3:26:52 PM3/5/19

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Is there any way to see what qubes the qubes-update-gui tool thinks there are updates for. Ever since installing Qubes 4.0 the gui has been telling me there is "updates available for 1 qubes" even when the gui shows there is not^1. Even manually selecting all listed quebes and running an update on them all does not get rid of this notice.

Is there somewhere on the command line I can look to see what qubes-update-gui tool things needs updating and more importantly, clear it :-)

1: This was also happening before I pause checking of some templates as per this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/|sort:date/qubes-users/V1YpSYsUiwA/8kt2j4BQBAAJ

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cooloutac

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Mar 6, 2019, 11:29:02 AM3/6/19

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when you update do -vv to show full information on update progress and see if there is any errors.

This sometimes happens to me if google chrome repo doesn't update for example.

Last time I did this it showed metadata erros. so a sudo dnf clean metadata fixed issue.

haaber

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Mar 6, 2019, 3:23:04 PM3/6/19

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> when you update do -vv to show full information on update progress and see if there is any errors.
>
> This sometimes happens to me if google chrome repo doesn't update for example.
>
> Last time I did this it showed metadata erros. so a sudo dnf clean metadata fixed issue.
>

This may be related to my observation that when dnf / apt cache are too
large, automatic updates fail, without users being notified about the
reason of the non-update ?

cooloutac

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Mar 7, 2019, 1:49:59 AM3/7/19

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I don't think so in my case.

regarding google chrome repo it was because I was forcing https over tor at the time. and when it got updated it would keep reverting it back to http and then failing. I would have to keep changing it back to https for it to update and get rid of arrow.

In case of the metadata error. It was cause I had upgraded the template manually to new version and it must of cause some problems.

For default repos this shouldn't happen anymore like in old Qubes versions.

cooloutac

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Mar 7, 2019, 1:56:00 AM3/7/19

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also it was a cloned repo that I had manually upgraded. wouldn't know there was no error. it would show it updating. unless I did the -v to see the problems.

Adam Robinson

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Mar 7, 2019, 9:19:46 AM3/7/19

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Is there any way to see what qubes the qubes-update-gui tool thinks there are updates for. Ever since installing Qubes 4.0 the gui has been telling me there is "updates available for 1 qubes" even when the gui shows there is not^1. Even manually selecting all listed quebes and running an update on them all does not get rid of this notice.

Is there somewhere on the command line I can look to see what qubes-update-gui tool things needs updating and more importantly, clear it :-)

I've seen the same behavior, I believe it is this bug - https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4667

From looking at https://github.com/QubesOS/updates-status/issues/879 it appears that an update for this was posted to the stable repository a few hours ago. I haven't had a chance to try it myself though.

-Adam

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cooloutac

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Mar 7, 2019, 11:54:31 AM3/7/19

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I would just use the Qubes-manager. really not sure why they wanted to change things. Seems like extra work for nothing.

cubit

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Mar 21, 2019, 6:11:42 AM3/21/19

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Mar 5, 2019, 8:26 PM by cubit@tutanota.c

To follow up, the latest dom0 updates (24-48hrs ago) appear to have fixed this.

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