Can't install Fedora 39 templates on R4.1

[Solomon1732]

Whenever I try to install Fedora 39, Fedora 39-xfce, or Fedora 39 minimal, then I get the following error: Error canonicalizing file: failed to fill whole buffer. I’m on R4.1. I updated all templates and dom0 before trying to install it. It also failed when I tried to install it before at some point in the last few weeks.

I am writing this after I successfully moved my Whonix 16 templates to Whonix 17. I used qvm-template install for both the Fedora and the Whonix templates. I have plenty of space on my harddrive.

Edit: It fails after it retries to download it a few times. Each time it fails with this error.

[adw]

@Solomon1732

Error canonicalizing file: failed to fill whole buffer

This error message has cropped up several times before:

• fedora-38 template fails to download · Issue #8607 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
• qvm-template fails to handle repositories with no metalink · Issue #8299 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
• Debian 12 templates available - #5 by tanky0u
• Fedora 38 templates available - #2 by quantum
• [qubes-users] Error installing Debian-12 template

You could try this workaround, but I don’t know whether it’ll work in this case:

Debian 12 templates available

Hmm, I think 4.1 doesn’t retry download from alternative mirrors, and the first one on the list (mirrors.kernel.org) hasn’t fetched the package yet. I think it should appear there about 22:00 UTC… Alternatively, you can edit /etc/qubes/repo-templates/qubes-templates.repo in dom0 and temporarily comment out metalink= entry and uncomment the baseurl= one

Also, please feel free to open a bug report for this.

(@marmarek: This seems to be a recurring problem.)

[Solomon1732]

I just tired to use the workaround, but to no avail. So, I’ll open a bug report. Thanks.

Edit: I opened a report on Github here: Can’t install Fedora 39 templates on R4.1 despite being available · Issue #9053 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub.