On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 3:48:22 PM UTC-4, Nemo wrote:
> My TemplateVMs have a recurring and unpredictable problem starting dnf.
> 
> dnf will display no output for a number of minutes and then exit with an 
> error like (not always this)
> 
> Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'qubes-vm-r3.2-current'
> 
> or
> 
> Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora'
> 
> I have the issue about 50% of the time I try to use dnf on a TemplateVM. If 
> the error appears, I usually attempt to troubleshoot for 20 mins before it 
> randomly works, or I give up and decide to try later.
> 
> Some symptoms/findings:
> 
> - An AppVM based on the TemplateVM may be able to use dnf at the same time 
> the TemplateVM cannot
> - Internet access (ie web browsing) is never affected
> - Allowing all internet access to the TemplateVM usually does not fix the 
> problem
> - Allowing all internet access and turning off proxy updates usually does not 
> fix the problem
> - Resetting the TemplateVM usually does not fix the problem
> - Resetting sys-firewall usually does not fix the problem
> - Changing the TemplateVM behind sys-firewall usually does not fix the problem
> - Adding fastestmirror=true to dnf.conf does not fix the problem
> - Restarting Qubes sometimes fixes the problem
> 
> I'm using fedora-25 and fedora-25-minimal as my core distributions.
> 
> Has anyone else come across this problem?

I've been able to isolate one issue:

A NetVM running a Fedora minimal distribution (including the NetVM packages) 
will not allow for updates by via qubes-update-proxy from TemplateVMs.

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