Kicksecure-18 installation fails

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I’ve been trying to install Kicksecure 18 on Qubes OS r4.3 (newest RC and testing updates) and I’ve been getting the following error:

% qvm-template install kicksecure-18
Downloading 'qubes-template-kicksecure-18-0:4.3.0-202511091326'...
qubes-template-kicksecure-18-0:4.3.0-202511091326: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▊| 830M/831M [00:46<00:00, 17.8MB/s]
Installing template 'kicksecure-18'...
kicksecure-18: Importing data
kicksecure-18: qubes.PostInstall service failed

Has anyone else also experienced this? The template gets created, but considering the multitude of security enhancements brought by Kicksecure, I’d be hesitant to use it with part of the installation failing.

I’ve checked dom0 journalctl, but there’s no errors or warnings there.

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Does the template start? If yes, could you start it and run /etc/qubes-rpc/qubes.PostInstall manually within a template terminal and see if provides more details?

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No errors reported. Is this all the installer should try to run, or are there additional steps I should take to make sure the template is configured correctly?

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It should be good to go. Not additional steps should be necessary.

You could investigate the journal logs within the template itself to see what went wrong on the 1st run.

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Qubes upstream issue, unspecific to Kicksecure:

Installing template 'kicksecure-18'...
kicksecure-18: Importing data
kicksecure-18: qubes.PostInstall service failed

Fix:

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Oh, it’s due to my PR :sweat_smile: . Interesting that I should be the one to report this :slight_smile: . Debian’s unmerged bin/sbin strikes again.