Upgrading Whonix 15 to 16 crashes Terminal and then Qube will not launch

Hi,

I’ve already started a thread in whonix forum, but trying to address any qubes-specific stuff here. I have successfully upgraded a number of whonix qubes from whonix 15 to 16, but one keeps failing.

What Happens

During running “release-upgrade”, which takes up to an hour, the terminal crashes. I have not witnessed what happens before the crash. But I can no longer launch any applications or relaunch terminal.

I tried:

dom0]$ qvm-run VMNAME xterm

and it just sits there and never launches or returns.

If I try copying a file from another qube to this damaged qube I get:

/etc/qubes-rpc/qubes.Filecopy: 2: exec: /usr/lib/qubes/qfile-unpacker: not found

In another thread I saw the option to do this:

dom0]$ sudo xl console -t pv VMNAME

I tried logging in as user with password blank and password ‘changeme’ but couldn’t get in.

If I shutdown the qube, it will not boot anymore.

LOG FILES

/var/log/xen/console/guest-VNAME.log: /var/log/xen/console/guest-VMNAME.log - Pastebin.com

/var/log/qubes/guid.VNMAME.log

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/var/log/qubes/qrexec.VMNAME.log

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GOAL

My goal in this forum is to get access to the damaged Qube so i can get a log file to give the Whonix team to figure out what is going wrong in the upgrade process.