R4.2: restoring backups crashes

[marmarek]

Observation

openQA test in scenario qubesos-4.2-pull-requests-x86_64-system_tests_backup@64bit fails in
TC_00_Backup

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubes/tests/integ/backup.py", line 223, in restore_backup
    restore_op = self.loop.run_until_complete(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/asyncio/base_events.py", line 653, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubesadmin/backup/restore.py", line 967, in __init__
    self.backup_app = self._process_qubes_xml()
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
qubesadmin.exc.QubesException: unable to extract the qubes backup. Check extracting process errors.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/contextlib.py", line 81, in inner
    return func(*args, **kwds)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubes/tests/integ/backup.py", line 369, in test_000_basic_backup
    self.restore_backup()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubes/tests/integ/backup.py", line 222, in restore_backup
    with self.assertNotRaises(qubesadmin.exc.QubesException):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubes/tests/__init__.py", line 281, in __exit__
    raise self.failureException(
AssertionError: QubesException('unable to extract the qubes backup. Check extracting process errors.') raised, traceback:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubes/tests/integ/backup.py", line 223, in restore_backup
    restore_op = self.loop.run_until_complete(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/asyncio/base_events.py", line 653, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubesadmin/backup/restore.py", line 967, in __init__
    self.backup_app = self._process_qubes_xml()
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qubesadmin/backup/restore.py", line 1378, in _process_qubes_xml
    raise QubesException(

Test suite description

1. Make a backup
2. Restore it

See test code at https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin/blob/main/qubes/tests/integ/backup.py#L360

Reproducible

Fails since (at least) Build 2023021319-4.2

Expected result

Last good: 2023011805-4.2 (or more recent)

Further details

Always latest result in this scenario: latest

[marmarek]

This looks to be a python bug, this one specifically: python/cpython#88110

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package core-admin-client has been pushed to the r4.2 testing repository for the Debian template.
To test this update, first enable the testing repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-*.list by uncommenting the line containing bullseye-testing (or appropriate equivalent for your template version), then use the standard update command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Changes included in this update

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Automated announcement from builder-github

The package core-admin-client has been pushed to the r4.2 testing repository for the Debian template.
To test this update, first enable the testing repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-*.list by uncommenting the line containing bookworm-testing (or appropriate equivalent for your template version), then use the standard update command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Changes included in this update

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The component core-admin-client (including package core-admin-client) has been pushed to the r4.2 testing repository for the Fedora template.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

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Changes included in this update

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The component core-admin-client (including package core-admin-client) has been pushed to the r4.2 testing repository for the Fedora template.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

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Changes included in this update

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