I’m a little at my wit’s end about this. But to summarize, I have 3 different problems when trying to update. Two are regarding mismatching dependencies, pulseaudio and python , the latter of which was fixed in 4.3 in github Qubes issue 10564 (noted in the forum post). However, it was not fixed in 4.…

Hello @archuser1234 , I’m also using ArchLinux but presently with QubesOS 4.3. Why not upgrading to 4.3 with a new install (clean installation in the Qubes-OS documentation), then restore your backups. I did all my upgrades with this procedure since Qubes-OS 4.0. But first you should verify and tr…

See also the 9th comment from : [image] Archlinux updates fail General Just wanted to share that I successfully upgraded my Arch Linux template to 4.3 using the testing repository. I’ve had no issues for the past two weeks. The base system is still on 4.2, though.

Hello, Thank you for your reply. I have the resources to back up my installation and do a clean install. I think there’s still a small chance that sudo qubes-dist-upgrade --releasever=4.3 --template-standalone-upgrade won’t fix all of the repo errors, but I will try it and will post an update if an…

Hey so it sort of worked. This is OP but I had to make another account for reasons I will describe here. So the upgrade seemed to work, it imported the old qubes and I ran the little command to update them. I then removed the duplicate qubes and kept the ones that I wanted. However, dom0 was the onl…

[image] lostotheraccountsry: However, dom0 was the only qube that didn’t seem to be imported from the backup. [image] lostotheraccountsry: But if anyone has any idea how to get the old dom0 back PLEASE reply. see the home-restore-<date> directory in your current dom0 home directory, it…

Qubes 4.2 archlinux can't update. pulseaudio, python, gpg errors

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