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Instructions:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Upgrading_Whonix_10_to_Whonix_11

Progress on documenting Qubes specific 10 -> 11 upgrade issues has been made:
https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=Upgrading_Whonix_10_to_Whonix_11&diff=16487&oldid=16470

There are a few Qubes specific issues to solve. Documentation on how users can work around those.

issue 1:

www.whonix.org/wiki/Upgrading_Whonix_10_to_Whonix_11#Configuring_iptables-persistent_dialog

issue 2:

Updating Qubes App Menus... (/usr/lib/qubes/qubes-trigger-sync-appmenus.sh) runs forever. Locked up 5 times now. (Manually edited that script to disable this for now so the upgrade runs through.)

When that happens, we could advice users to open another terminal and to run:
sudo killall qubes-trigger-sync-appmenus.sh

But that solution is not great because it makes the upgrade process cumbersome, tedious. Any better idea?

TODO: provide debug output to Marek as per https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/MoUqGfMpMu0/GQfKwN1jBgAJ

Currently upgrading Whonix-Workstation template. Will test upgrade a Whonix-Gateway template soon. Upgrade is slow. Still running. There may or may not be other issues during upgrading or after restart.

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Patrick created this task.Jul 25 2015, 9:02 PM
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Patrick added a comment.EditedJul 25 2015, 9:05 PM

issue 3:

Package configuration                                                                                                 
 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┤ Configuring base-passwd ├───────────────────────────────────────────┐  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │ update-passwd has found a difference between your system accounts and the current Debian defaults.  It is       │  
 │ advisable to allow update-passwd to change your system; without those changes some packages might not work      │  
 │ correctly.  For more documentation on the Debian account policies, please see                                   │  
 │ /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README.                                                                              │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │ The proposed change is:                                                                                         │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │ Remove group "qubes" (98)                                                                                       │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │ If you allow this change, a backup of modified files will be made with the extension .org, which you can use    │  
 │ if necessary to restore the current settings.  If you do not make this change now, you can make it later with   │  
 │ the update-passwd utility.                                                                                      │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │ Do you want to remove the group qubes?                                                                          │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 │                                 <Yes>                                    <No>                                   │  
 │                                                                                                                 │  
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Qubes specific. Most likely specific to the Debian templates, not Qubes-Whonix specific.

What should one answer? Trying "no".

(Also happens on jessie -> stretch upgrades. Therefore unspecific to Whonix.)

Reported upstream at Qubes tracker:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1105

Patrick added a comment.EditedJul 25 2015, 9:10 PM

Issue 4:
We don't have the upgraded qubes-whonix 11 package for in the repository yet.

Patrick added a comment.EditedJul 25 2015, 9:35 PM

issue 5:

apt-get dist-upgrade

The following packages have been kept back:
db5.1-util grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

I guess we can simply recommend to purge those?

apt-get purge db5.1-util grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common

Patrick added a comment.EditedJul 25 2015, 9:38 PM

issue 6:
After upgrade, after "sudo shutdown" and starting the upgraded template, I am unable to start (using "Run command in VM") xterm, konsole and gnome-terminal. Neither any other applications are startable.

Update... Qubes specific issue with it's Debian package versions and repository:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1095#issuecomment-127013501

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