Qubes OS 4.1-rc1 has been released!

Ok, I wasn’t sure where to provide this feedback, so doing it here. I’m on 4.1rc1 now. Here is my report thus far:

  1. Tried in place upgrade on my desktop. Failed at Step 3. but I had a corrupted Whonix=15 template, not sure if that contributed to failure.
  2. So, I did a clean install. after a corrupted iso download, I was able to do a clean install, and all went well.
  3. After install,
    3.a. I am not seeing sys-usb? I configured to have it installed, so not sure why I’m not seeing it. Anyone experience this?
    3.b. Fedora-34 template seems to have been corrupted on the initial install. I had no apps showing up in there, and I wasn’t able to do an update on it. I couldn’t open a terminal window in it, since no apps were showing up.
    3.c. When I tried to reinstall Fedora-34 template, the testing template repo was not accessible. I had set it up to be enabled. I checked in /etc/yum.repo.d/ files. it showed as being enabled. But, I had to manually enable the repo at the CLI and then I could reinstall fedora-34
    3.d. Restoring backups: When I plugin my USB drive with backups, They are NOT showing up in the VM’s. Any of them. I had used sys-usb to do the backups on 4.0.4. But, since I don’t have a sys-usb in 4.1rc1 I’m not sure what to do.
    3.d.1. I"m realizing if the fedora-34 template was corrupted on install, that might be why the sys-usb never got created? and this could be why plugging in a usb drive and connecting it to sys-net (fedora-34 template) isn’t workign also? I’ll do some experimenting with this now.
    3.d.2. Yep that was the problem. fedora-34 being corrupted on install created the usb-drive connection problem. My keyboard and mouse worked though. so, curious about that.

I need to see if I can get a sys-usb VM setup now.

This is all for now.