Launching "Update qube" dropdown on dom0 in Qubes Manager appears to do nothing

[jrsmiley]

Qubes OS version:

4.0.1-rc2

Affected component(s):

Qubes Manager ?

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Launch QM
Select dom0
Left click to open dropdown
Select Update qube

Expected behavior:

Pop up appears and shows checking for updates and applying any it finds.

Actual behavior:

After about 5 minutes, a window appeared saying no updates were available.

General notes:

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Related issues:

More evidence that the Qubes Updater app is broken: Launching "Update qube" after selecting the debian-9 template and opening the dropdown did find and apply updates to the template. QU reported that none were available even after specifically checking the checkbox for that template.

[jrsmiley]

Not with the effort to fix. Better to spend that time elsewhere

[andrewdavidwong]

Not with the effort to fix. Better to spend that time elsewhere

I'd like to leave this sort of decision up to the Qubes devs. I'll reopen this for now with the help wanted label in case anyone from the community wants to contribute a patch. If the Qubes devs decide to close this, they can always do so.

[andrewdavidwong]

Looks like this actually does do something; it just doesn't show or tell you anything: https://qubes-os.discourse.group/t/recommendation-against-qubes-dom0-update-use-qubes-updater-instead/4131/11?u=adw

In any case, I propose replacing the built-in Qube Manager update functionality the Qubes Update tool (#6635), which would also eliminate this problem.