[qubes-users] Salt updates fails on Fedora-33

After I installed the fedora-33 template a few days ago, I have never been able to do a software update on it using the Salt-based updater. A manual update using “dnf update” works fine.

This is the error I’m getting in the updater tool:

Is this a known problem, and is there some easy way to fix this?

I could not clone the fedora 33 templates, with a similar error message
about "not clean", until I started and stopped the template. It's been
OK since then.

Mike.

I don’t think that’s the problem I’m facing, as I have restarted the template several times in order to do manual updates.

I could not clone the fedora 33 templates, with a similar error message
about “not clean”, until I started and stopped the template. It’s been
OK since then.

I don’t think that’s the problem I’m facing, as I have restarted the template several times in order to do manual updates.

In the F33 template announcement there were some mention about the update control dvm needing to be updated to fedora-33 for the qubes update process to work correctly. Updates will work right out of the box from the dnf command line even without that change. Did you already follow this guidance?

Thank you for the tip. I thought I had followed those recommendations, but I had missed the management VM template change. Changing this fixed the problem. Sorry for the noise.