Unable to update fedora

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tried to udate my fedora to the lastest update posted in qubes updated. keeps giving me this error

Updating fedora-40-xfce
Refreshing package info
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘fedora’:

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Are you able to update other templates?
What’s your default update qube that you use to update the templates?
Check the output of this command in the default update qube:

sudo systemctl status qubes-updates-proxy.service | cat
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my default templates for qubes is debian . yes i was able to update my whonix and whonix gateway. how do i check what is my update qube?

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Are you able to update your debian templates (not Whonix one)?

Q → Gear icon → Qubes Tools → Qubes Global Config → Updates → Default update proxy

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yes i was able to update my debian templates.

my default update proxy is sys-whonix

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What’s the output of these commands in fedora-40-xfce template?

sudo systemctl status qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket qubes-updates-proxy.service | cat
ss -tulnp | grep 8082
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My experience on this is just to be patient for a while. Fedora repos are known for their instability in terms of accessibility. I had this myself several times last week.

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[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$ sudo systemctl status qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket qubes-updss -tulnp | grep 8082
Unknown unit type or load state ‘ulnp’.
Use -t help to see a list of allowed values.
[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$ sudo systemctl status qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket qubes-updss -tulnp | grep 8082
Unknown unit type or load state ‘ulnp’.
Use -t help to see a list of allowed values.

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You’re typing that wrong. There are two commands, read carefully @apparatus ’ comment.

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thank you. can you tell me where each command ends

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No worries.
First command is:

The second command is:

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noted thank you

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[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$ sudo systemctl status qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket qubes-updates-proxy.service | cat
● qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket - Forward connection to updates proxy over Qubes RPC
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (listening) since Mon 2024-09-30 08:08:01 CDT; 1min 54s ago
Listen: 127.0.0.1:8082 (Stream)
Accepted: 0; Connected: 0;
Tasks: 0 (limit: 385)
Memory: 4.0K (peak: 256.0K)
CPU: 709us
CGroup: /system.slice/qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket

Sep 30 08:08:01 fedora-40-xfce systemd[1]: Listening on qubes-updates-proxy-forwarder.socket - Forward connection to updates proxy over Qubes RPC.

○ qubes-updates-proxy.service - Qubes updates proxy (tinyproxy)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/qubes-updates-proxy.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition unmet at Mon 2024-09-30 08:08:01 CDT; 1min 53s ago
└─ ConditionPathExists=|/var/run/qubes-service/qubes-updates-proxy was not met

Sep 30 08:08:01 fedora-40-xfce systemd[1]: qubes-updates-proxy.service - Qubes updates proxy (tinyproxy) was skipped because no trigger condition checks were met.
[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$

[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$ ss -tulnp | grep 8082
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1%lo:8082 0.0.0.0:*
[user@fedora-40-xfce ~]$

I am having problems also where my Debian-12-xfce is unable to update as well

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Did it work before at this point?

What changed after this? Did you update the debian template or dom0?

What error do you have for debian templates?

Are you able to browse the websites using Tor Browser in the Whonix Workstation qubes connected to sys-whonix?

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yes i was able to update my debian templates before

then i did a dom0 template up

yes i am able to browse using the tor broweser in my connected sys-whonix qubes. i also did an successful update of whonix qubes with the release i was prompted to update.

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Can you post the error message that you get when you try to update a debian template?

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Updating debian-12-xfce
Refreshing package info
Refreshing packages.
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /r4.2/vm/ bookworm InRelease from https://deb.qubes-os.org/r4.2/vm/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian bookworm InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian-security bookworm-security InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /r4.2/vm/ bookworm InRelease from https://deb.qubes-os.org/r4.2/vm/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian bookworm InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /r4.2/vm/ bookworm InRelease from https://deb.qubes-os.org/r4.2/vm/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian-security bookworm-security InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /r4.2/vm/ bookworm InRelease from https://deb.qubes-os.org/r4.2/vm/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian bookworm InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian-security bookworm-security InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian bookworm InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Refreshed.
Fail to refresh InRelease: Index of /debian-security bookworm-security InRelease from https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease
E:Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease Reading from proxy failed - select (115: Operation now in progress) [IP: 127.0.0.1 8082], E:Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease Reading from proxy failed - select (115: Operation now in progress) [IP: 127.0.0.1 8082], E:Failed to fetch https://deb.qubes-os.org/r4.2/vm/dists/bookworm/InRelease Reading from proxy failed - select (115: Operation now in progress) [IP: 127.0.0.1 8082], E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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Do you upgrade your Whonix templates using Qubes Update tool or by manually running the update commands in the template terminal?

Maybe you have the same issue as here:

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I updated it through qubes update tool

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Did you make any changes in the whonix-gateway-17 template or in the sys-whonix qube?

Maybe try to reinstall the whonix-gateway-17 template.

Also, did you enable IPv6 in your qubes?