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On 2016-08-02 04:19, [email protected] wrote:
> Summary of Problem: During a fresh installation of Qubes R3.1, all
> restored Debian TemplateVMs crash during the apt-get dist-upgrade and can
> no longer be restarted.
> 
> Details: My preferred Qubes upgrade method is to do a fresh install to a
> new disk and backup/restore AppVMs and TemplateVMs from the previous
> version. This has highlighted two problems (the minor one first):
> 
> 1. The documentation at 
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/3.1/release-notes/#upgrading details 
> two upgrade methods: [quote]The easiest and safest way to upgrade to Qubes 
> R3.1 is to install it fromscratch and use qubes backup and restore tools 
> formigrating of all of the user VMs. Users of Qubes R3.0 can upgrade using 
> experimentalprocedure.[/quote]
> 
> 
> 
> I can find no reference in the fresh-installation instructions for
> upgrading the TemplateVMs, which only seems to be mentioned in the
> "experimental method" section. Perhaps the term "experimental" is no longer
> appropriate and, if so, should ideally be dropped.
> 
> 2. After a fresh installation of R3.1, I restored all AppVMs, HVMs and 
> TemplateVMs (from R3.0) to the new system, I upgraded the Fedora
> TemplateVMs without problem using the "experimental" procedure but ALL 3 of
> my Debian-based TemplateVMs crash during the apt-get dist-upgrade step,
> leaving the VMs in an unusable state (cannot be restarted).
> 
> Since this is consistent across all three of my Debian-based TemplateVMs 
> (debian-8, debian-8-nonfree and debian-8-sandbox) it seems likely to be a 
> bug. Right now, I've restored all three from backup and they are still
> usable in R3.0 form but some things (eg VM Manager Update) no longer work.
> 
> Is this a known problem? Is there a solution or workaround?
> 

Thanks for the report. Tracking your issue here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2224

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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