Updating Fedora totally killed audio

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*Edit: Ok, so I have been reading some other posts and it seems this is a known problem and a fix is on the way.

Hello,

I recently installed Qubes for the first time and immediately started by updating all the templateVMs. When it came to updating the Fedora template it mostly worked but I also got this:

Problem 1: package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio = 13.99.1, but none of the providers can be installed

  • cannot install both pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-13.99.1-3.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package pulseaudio-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
    Problem 2: package qubes-vm-recommended-4.0.7-1.fc32.noarch requires pulseaudio-qubes, but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio = 13.99.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio-libs(x86-64) = 13.99.1-4.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-13.99.1-3.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio-libs(x86-64) = 13.99.1-3.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-libs-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-libs-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-libs-13.99.1-3.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-libs-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package qubes-vm-recommended-4.0.7-1.fc32.noarch
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package pulseaudio-libs-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
    Problem 3: problem with installed package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64
  • package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio = 13.99.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-13.99.1-3.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64
  • package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 requires libpulsecore-14.0.so()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio(x86-64) = 14.0-1.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
    Problem 4: problem with installed package qubes-vm-recommended-4.0.7-1.fc32.noarch
  • package qubes-vm-recommended-4.0.7-1.fc32.noarch requires pulseaudio-qubes, but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-qubes-4.0.31-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio = 13.99.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64
  • cannot install both pulseaudio-13.99.1-3.fc32.x86_64 and pulseaudio-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64
  • package pulseaudio-module-x11-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 requires libpulsecore-14.0.so()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  • package pulseaudio-module-x11-14.0-1.fc32.x86_64 requires pulseaudio(x86-64) = 14.0-1.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed
  • cannot install the best update candidate for package pulseaudio-module-x11-13.99.1-4.fc32.x86_64

Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add ‘–best --allowerasing’ to command line to force their upgrade):
pulseaudio 13.00.1-3.fc32
pulseaudio 14.0-1.fc32
pulseaudio-libs 13.99.1-3.fc32
pulseaudiolibs 14.0-1.fc32
Skipping packages with broken dependencies
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 14.0-1.fc32
pulseaudio-module-xll 14.0-1.fc32

So I typed 'sudo dnf update --best --allowerasing" it worked, but now my laptop can’t play audio anymore. Not through the speakers and not through the headphone jack. I eventually had to reinstall Qubes because I couldn’t fix it.

I think it’s pretty clear that relatively new to Linux having only used Mint for about a year and a half or so before switching to Qubes, but if anyone could point me in the right direction here so I could update the fedora template and still have audio that would be immensely appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi @c4nx,
Yes it’s a known problem, see the 6234 issue.
If you don’t want to wait the future update, you can use the testing package, see the announce of the testing package
The command is below, BUT you should understand what you do before doing it (read the issue and the documentations):

sudo dnf update --enablerepo=qubes-vm-r4.0-current-testing
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