ID: 380PHID: PHID-TASK-4n7e6h5jlgaokevcofd4Author: PatrickStatus at Migration Time: resolvedPriority at Migration Time: High
Instructions:
Progress on documenting Qubes specific 10 → 11 upgrade issues has been made:
There are a few Qubes specific issues to solve. Documentation on how users can work around those.
issue 1 :
Release Upgrade
issue 2 :
Updating Qubes App Menus... (/usr/lib/qubes/qubes-trigger-sync-appmenus.sh) runs forever. Locked up 5 times now. (Manually edited that script to disable this for now so the upgrade runs through.)
When that happens, we could advice users to open another terminal and to run:sudo killall qubes-trigger-sync-appmenus.sh
But that solution is not great because it makes the upgrade process cumbersome, tedious. Any better idea?
TODO : provide debug output to Marek as per https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/MoUqGfMpMu0/GQfKwN1jBgAJ
Currently upgrading Whonix-Workstation template. Will test upgrade a Whonix-Gateway template soon. Upgrade is slow. Still running. There may or may not be other issues during upgrading or after restart.
2015-08-06 01:28:16 UTC
issue 3 :
Package configuration
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┤ Configuring base-passwd ├───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ update-passwd has found a difference between your system accounts and the current Debian defaults. It is │
│ advisable to allow update-passwd to change your system; without those changes some packages might not work │
│ correctly. For more documentation on the Debian account policies, please see │
│ /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README. │
│ │
│ The proposed change is: │
│ │
│ Remove group "qubes" (98) │
│ │
│ If you allow this change, a backup of modified files will be made with the extension .org, which you can use │
│ if necessary to restore the current settings. If you do not make this change now, you can make it later with │
│ the update-passwd utility. │
│ │
│ Do you want to remove the group qubes? │
│ │
│ <Yes> <No> │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Qubes specific. Most likely specific to the Debian templates, not Qubes-Whonix specific.
What should one answer? Trying “no”.
(Also happens on jessie → stretch upgrades. Therefore unspecific to Whonix.)
Reported upstream at Qubes tracker:in place upgrade issue - base-passwd debconf interative question asks 'Remove group "qubes"'? · Issue #1105 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
2015-07-30 20:40:49 UTC
2015-08-02 19:38:44 UTC
issue 5 :
apt-get dist-upgrade
The following packages have been kept back: db5.1-util grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
I guess we can simply recommend to purge those?
apt-get purge db5.1-util grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
2015-08-02 10:40:51 UTC