when updating with tor network, some time it get stuck forever, how can i force cancel it and not wait until they are finished?
now i am 30 minutes+ with 30 vms open that won’t progress
The template updates is not yet smart enough to handle the update cancel operation safely, it can only wait for currently updating qubes to finish the update process and don’t start updating other qubes that are not yet started.
If you forcefully interrupt the updating qube when it’s installing already downloaded packages then it could end up in a corrupted state and you won’t be able to boot it anymore.
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It could be possible to use the volumes rollback in that case
Yes, but average user will most probably try to start the template a few times before thinking about reverting the volume and at this point it’ll be already too late.
The related issue:
Revert TemplateVMs on update failure · Issue #6661 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
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You can just get into the terminal or console of an updating qube and order it to shutdown. Or use qvm-run to do the same. It may break stuff, but who cares you can roll back.
Shutting down updating qubes results in updates stopping with error.
qvm-kill is also of use.
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