Can't install Fedora 39 templates on R4.1

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@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.)