How to completely remove a template ?

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Hello,

I had upgraded my fedora-23 template to fedora-24 by cloning it per the
documentation, then moved all my VMs to using the new one.

Then I removed (dnf remove) the fedora-23 package. Still it shows up in
the "Qubes VM manager", and the option "Remove VM" is greyed out.

I have then removed all the fedora-23 folders under /var/lib/qubes ,
still I cannot get rid of the entry in the VM manager.*

Any clue ?

TIA, kind regards.

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[cubit]

16. Dec 2016 10:04 by sw...@petaramesh.org:

I had upgraded my fedora-23 template to fedora-24 by cloning it per the
documentation, then moved all my VMs to using the new one.

Then I removed (dnf remove) the fedora-23 package. Still it shows up in
the "Qubes VM manager", and the option "Remove VM" is greyed out.

I have then removed all the fedora-23 folders under /var/lib/qubes ,
still I cannot get rid of the entry in the VM manager.*

from dom0 terminal run 

qvm-remove <template or AppVM name>

e.g

qvm-remove fedora-23

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Thanks for the reply Cubit,

Unfortunately I get

$ qvm-remove fedora-23

This VM has been installed by RPM, use yum remove <pkg name> to remove it!

...Which has been done long ago :/

On 12/16/2016 12:31 PM, cubit wrote:
> qvm-remove <template or AppVM name>

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

On 12/16/2016 02:26 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Cubit,
>
> Unfortunately I get
>
> $ qvm-remove fedora-23
>
> This VM has been installed by RPM, use yum remove <pkg name> to remove it!
>
> ...Which has been done long ago :/

Well, I finally soled it by reinstalling, then uninstalling, the old
template RPM.

Thanks for the help :-)

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:26:12PM +0100, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Cubit,
>
> Unfortunately I get
>
> $ qvm-remove fedora-23
>
> This VM has been installed by RPM, use yum remove <pkg name> to remove it!
>
> ...Which has been done long ago :/

If you already removed RPM, you can use qvm-remove --just-db. It will
probably complain that some VM still use it. Normally it should block
package removal, but there is a bug in rpm which result in not aborting.
It is already fixed in rpm-4.13.0:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-012-2014.txt
But Fedora 23 (which is used in dom0) still have 4.13.0-rc1

There is already fix in Fedora testing repository:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0906f64ec8

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Invisible Things Lab
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