On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:27:06PM -0700, Otto Kratik wrote: > On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 7:49:43 AM UTC-4, awokd wrote: > > Otto Kratik wrote on 10/31/18 2:28 AM: > > > Qubes 4.0 > > > > > > > > > Whenever attempting to launch an app in a DVM, the result is always the > > > same. The popup message comes up saying "Disp1234 has started", and then > > > nothing happens. Then about two minutes later, another popup says > > > "Disp1234 has halted". No app ever launches. > > > > > > It doesn't matter what app I try.. xterm, konsole, firefox, dolphin, > > > thunar, tor browser, gedit, kwrite etc. Always the same behavior. Also > > > doesn't matter if I try from Q Menu shortcuts, command line in dom0, > > > command line in another AppVM.. no difference. Just the same type of > > > message in the terminal, says it's launching, then shuts down two minutes > > > later with no output. > > > > > > Doesn't make a difference either if I try to open a file in a DVM or just > > > straight launching an app. Nothing ever opens. Launching apps regularly > > > from normal AppVM's works perfectly all the time, just not DVM's. > > > > > > Slight correction: About 1 in 10 times, launching Firefox from a > > > Fedora-template-based DVM succeeds. The other 9 times it fails. All other > > > apps fail 10 out of 10 times. And launching any app (including Firefox) > > > from a Whonix-ws-14-template-based DVM also fails 100% of the time as > > > described above. > > > > > > How is this issue best investigated and resolved? > > > > > > > Have you upgraded to Whonix 14 or customized the DVM? Try removing it > > completely (you might have to temporarily change DVM defaults to a > > different template), then recreating it with `sudo qubesctl state.sls > > qvm.whonix-ws-14-dvm`. If that doesn't work, see > > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Uninstall and > > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Install to completely uninstall and > > reinstall the workstation template and DVM. You can skip the gateway > > steps if you've already upgraded it to 14 since it sounds like that's > > still working. > > It's a fresh install of Qubes 4 with freshly downloaded/installed Whonix > 14/DVM templates using the salt/qubesctl command mentioned above and in the > documentation. No customisations. So I doubt reinstalling would have any > effect. > > Whonix-ws-14 template works perfectly fine for running apps the normal way, > from AppVMs based upon it. No issue whatsoever. Only running them from > whonix-ws-14-dvm causes trouble. > > However as I said, even trying to run apps from Fedora-26-dvm also fails the > majority of the time, so I'm not even convinced it's a whonix specific issue. > Rather a DVM one in general. > > Any other things to try? >
I would try this: Install all updates in dom0 and qubes. Create a new Fedora based qube. Confirm you can run programs as expected. Make it a template for dispvms, using qvm-prefs. Close all unnecessary qubes. Then , at command line, start to test running programs in dispvms based on the qube. Generally , the command should be: qvm-run --dispvm <qube> <command> That's the most basic form. Anything you can run using qvm-run <qube> <command> should work in disposableVM based on qube (except gnome-terminal) That will test the basic infrastructure. If all is good, start testing a more complex form: qvm-run -a --service --dispvm=<qube> --qubes.StartApp+<command> <command> here should have an associated desktop file. Again, anything you can run using qvm-run --service <qube> <command> should work in disposableVM based on the qube (except gnome-terminal) That will test the more complex infrastructure. If all's good, you can start testing different template based qubes, including Whonix. If it's not good there's something fundamentally broken. qvm-run *does* have -v option, but it doesn't generate verbose output. Check back when you have some results from testing. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20181101141333.xbwqpz3fp4mxy5fa%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
