Workaround: Refresh Application button suddenly stuck at "Refresh in progress" in Windows HVM.

[Tseng Wynn]

In the past. refresh application button works on Windows 7 HVM.
I don't know if this issue has only happened to me after some dom0 upgrade. So I post here first.

I'm running fully up-to-date Qubes OS 4.0.
After I installed some applications on Windows 7 Template HVM and decided to refresh the application list in the application tab. But after I clicked Refresh application button. It stuck at "Refresh in progress...". When I close setting window out and open it again. The application list did not update.

After some tracing. I found out when I type "qvm-sync-appmenus WIN7-HVM-NAME" in dom0 terminal throwing the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qvm-sync-appmenus", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('qubesdesktop==4.0.16', 'console_scripts', 'qvm-sync-appmenus')()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qubesappmenus/receive.py", line 405, in main
process_appmenus_templates(appmenusext, vm, new_appmenus)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qubesappmenus/receive.py", line 312, in process_appmenus_templates
templates_dir)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/shutil.py", line 241, in copy
copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/shutil.py", line 120, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/qubes-appmenus/qubes-start.desktop'

So basically I solve the problem by typing "sudo touch /usr/share/qubes-appmenus/qubes-start.desktop" and re-run the command again this time it didn't throw the error and when I press "Refresh Application" on Windows 7 Template HVM and BANG! Application list updated.

[Tseng Wynn]

So does anyone have the same issue and solve the problem by applying "sudo touch /usr/share/qubes-appmenus/qubes-start.desktop" on dom0 terminal?

Notes: If this post is more suitable for qubes-issues rather then qubes-users. then I will post on qubes-issues

[donoban]

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On 11/28/18 11:08 AM, Tseng Wynn wrote:
> Notes: If this post is more suitable for qubes-issues rather then
> qubes-users. then I will post on qubes-issues

It will be easier to track and fix.
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