Can't login to VM after upgrade to fedora 26

[nicholas roveda]

I've upgraded a fedora-25 template in R4.0 rc1/current-testing to fedora-26 and now the VM stops at login(tty1).
It doesn't let me login as 'user', but only as root and after few seconds being root, the VM shutdowns.

Upgrade commands:
`sudo dnf clean all`
`sudo dnf --best --allowerasing --releasever=26 distro-sync`

Is there any way to fix the Template?
And what about the trimming, since `qvm-trim-template` is gone?

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:37:29PM -0700, nicholas roveda wrote:
> I've upgraded a fedora-25 template in R4.0 rc1/current-testing to fedora-26 and now the VM stops at login(tty1).
> It doesn't let me login as 'user', but only as root and after few seconds being root, the VM shutdowns.
>
> Upgrade commands:
> `sudo dnf clean all`
> `sudo dnf --best --allowerasing --releasever=26 distro-sync`

Do you remember what packages got removed? I guess you removed
qubes-core-agent during the process. Do you have enabled current-testing
repository permanently (enabled=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/...)? If not,
the above command lack --enablerepo=qubes*current-testing

In any case, there is also prebuilt fedora-26 template available, you
can install it with qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-26.

You can see list of templates here:
https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-itl/rpm/
https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-community/rpm/

> Is there any way to fix the Template?
> And what about the trimming, since `qvm-trim-template` is gone?

It isn't needed anymore, thanks to LVM thin provisioning.
You may want to call `fstrim -v /` in the template after updating.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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[Andrew Morgan]

On 10/13/2017 06:57 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:37:29PM -0700, nicholas roveda wrote:
>> I've upgraded a fedora-25 template in R4.0 rc1/current-testing to fedora-26 and now the VM stops at login(tty1).
>> It doesn't let me login as 'user', but only as root and after few seconds being root, the VM shutdowns.
>
>> Upgrade commands:
>> `sudo dnf clean all`
>> `sudo dnf --best --allowerasing --releasever=26 distro-sync`
>
> Do you remember what packages got removed? I guess you removed
> qubes-core-agent during the process. Do you have enabled current-testing
> repository permanently (enabled=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/...)? If not,
> the above command lack --enablerepo=qubes*current-testing
>
> In any case, there is also prebuilt fedora-26 template available, you
> can install it with qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-26.
>
> You can see list of templates here:
> https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-itl/rpm/
> https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-community/rpm/
>
>> Is there any way to fix the Template?
>> And what about the trimming, since `qvm-trim-template` is gone?
>
> It isn't needed anymore, thanks to LVM thin provisioning.
> You may want to call `fstrim -v /` in the template after updating.
>
>

To follow up to this, I'm also trying to upgrade from Fedora 25 to 26,
but on Qubes R3.2.

Using:
`sudo dnf --releasever=26 --setopt=cachedir=/mnt/removeable distro-sync
--allowerasing --best --enablerepo=qubes*current-testing`

Everything looks good besides the Removing section:

Removing:
kernel-core x86_64 4.13.5-100.fc25
@updates
55 M
kernel-debug-devel x86_64 4.13.5-100.fc25
@updates
44 M
kernel-devel x86_64
1000:4.4.31-11.pvops.qubes
@qubes-vm-r3.2-current 38 M
libkdcraw x86_64 15.08.3-3.fc24
@fedora
402 k
mysql-workbench-community x86_64 6.3.8-1.fc23
@@commandline
182 M
qubes-gui-vm x86_64 3.2.18-1.fc25
@qubes-vm-r3.2-current
140 k
yum-utils noarch 1.1.31-511.fc25
@fedora
334 k

Removing qubes-gui-vm looks like something I don't want to do... Also
what about the old kernels? Do they matter at all since kernels are
typically provided by dom0 anyways?

Thanks,
Andrew Morgan

[Daniel Moerner]

Hi,

qubes-gui-vm needs to be rebuilt against the newer version of pulseaudio. This should be fixed as of commit 4cf2d11 in qubes-gui-agent-linux, but it looks like it still needs to be built and pushed to the repositories.

Fixing this is important because --allowerasing is needed for some updates from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 because of this upstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467060.

Best,
Daniel