Qubes update behaving strangely

Hi @Jk0!

Let’s break this down:

  • updating dom0 - sudo qubes-dom0-update
  • AppVMs Not Reporting Updates - through qubes update
  • AppVMs Getting Stuck Updating - this comment

It seems strange since the two update processes should be totally different and yet you’re having 3 problems at the same time…

Updating dom0 Issue

That problem seems related to this yet to be solved issue:

Please check it to see if that’s indeed your problem

AppVMs Not Reporting Updates

Just to see if I got this right: your issue is that AppVMs are not reporting updates in qubes-updater. Right?

I think the way TemplateVM know they are lacking updates is through a little program that runs in each AppVM every so often so check if there are, in which case it will report the TemplateVM as in need of updating. See a related discussion on that here: Qubes-OS automatic update check interval

AppVMs Getting Stuck Updating

For this have you tried updating manually the VM in a command line to see what it reports?

It is possible that they hand if there is some unresolved update issue