On 2019-12-18 18:47, Stumpy wrote:
On 2019-12-19 01:16, Stumpy wrote:
On 2019-12-18 19:08, Steve Coleman wrote:
On 2019-12-18 07:57, Stumpy wrote:
Last night I noticed that I was not able to start an appvm via dom0
(qvm-run appvm programname) so then tried to start another app in
another appvm, nothing.
I had a bunch of things open still from earlier in the afternoon so
figured I needed to reboot, did, and still nothing, except I dont
have any previous apps open up so my system is barely usable.
When i try to run an app, say from the xfce menu (or directly from
the dom0 terminal) I get the little pop up that the VM is starting,
and it shows up in zentop and the qubes manager, but no app. I tried
to start apps from the right click "run" option in the qubes manager
but nothing, doesnt matter if the appvm is already running or not.
The only thing i have done in dom0 in terms of "messing around" was
to modify the sudo vi /etc/qubes/quid.conf so that one of my appvms
would open w/o a border (which I since undid in attempts to get
things working) i cant think of anything else i have done in dom0?
This is killing me as I am not working on my work/win comp :( so any
help would really really really be appreciated. Please let me know
if there are any logs or something i should be posting?
This sounds very similar to a problem I have been having (at home and
at work), only your issue sounds like a much worse case of it.
Ref: Qubes 4.0.1, Fedora-30 template
When I come into work in the morning, or upon booting my workstation
at home, if I launch an app in a non-running VM (sometimes subsequent
re-launches of a VM) the app I used to initiate that VM does not come
up. The pop-up message of the starting VM appears, then nothing. The
VM gets started and the disk is whirring away, but the app never
appears. If I launch the same app again sometimes both instances of
that app appear one right after they other. Between those two
invocations I might even wait until all the disk activity settles down
and everything works fine.
If for instance I use Qubes Manager to "update qube" the window almost
never comes up the first time. The second time it will. If I start the
template first and then select "update qube" it almost always comes up
correctly, unless something is chewing up all the CPU or hitting the
disk pretty hard.
My issue seems to be related to too much activity of the AppVM's
services creating enough lag to the system that the qrexec either
times out or gets slowed down to the point of not completing the
launching of the app. This is frustrating because after the first
launch it seems to work better, so testing of why it isn't starting
clearly needs to be planned in advance. Perhaps some resources get
cached in memory the firt time so it starts that VM quicker, and thus
the qrexec doesn't time out?
I would suggest turning on the "Run in debug mode" option in the Qubes
Manager's AppVM configuration so you can collect better logging
information and see if that tells you anything. That is what I am
planning to do tomorrow morning before launching anything. I had just
turned it on for one VM this morning that sometimes acts up, and
wouldn't you know it, it has not repeated that problem launching that
VM the second time. Maybe tomorrow, or if I leave the machine alone
for a while I might get it to repeat again. I think I will make a
habit of turning on the debugging before launching any new VM's just
in case I can catch it in the act of not acting properly.
Thanks for pointing out where to turn the logging on.
Questions though, I was attempting to look through the three logs of
two different appvms but was not really sure where to start (was just
shy of 6k lines).
1) Would posting the output to like a pastebin be useful/appropriate?
2) How sensitive is the info in the logs? (In looking through them it
didnt seem like I was giving much info away but at the same time I am
barely able to make sense of most of it).
Thanks for the help, I of course want to get this figured out... I
love my qubes box, all my friends live inside it :P
Well as I have not been able to find (understand) anything wrote I
thought I'd cross my fingers and post logs from two different appvms
(debian and fedora). It occured to me though that if this is happening
with all appvms, which it is, then perhaps its an issue with dom0 but
anyway, am posting just in case. If there are dom0 logs that would be of
use then please let me know.
https://pastebin.com/LAXPSyBc
What I see in the log that looks suspicious is:
domain dead
Failed to connect to gui-agent
if it connected you would have seen something like:
[ 18.849522] audit: type=1130 audit(1576676114.676:22): pid=1 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=qubes-gui-agent comm="systemd"
exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
And that "audit:" message is not anywhere in your logs, so I think your
AppVM's template might be broken. If you have no gui-agent then nothing
would display when it is run, which pretty much seems to be your issue.
Mine is running, so our problems are likely unrelated.
What happens when you use "qvm-run -p -v AppVM appname" to run the same
app in that same vm? If the application runs but has any runtime errors
like opening the display you might see what is happening from the dom0
command line. if the app allows some type of -v switch try that too. You
can also run ps and other system commands to see what services are
running etc. You can also run dnf that way to reinstall a package on the
fly if you can figure out which one is broken
qvm-run --user root -p AppVM dnf -y reinstall <package-name>
That would only be a temporary fix until you do the same in the template
that AppVM is based on, but it might help you figure out what qubes
packages are broken.
Another thing you should try is to just use a new template for that same
AppVM and see if that allows your application to run properly. Just use
Qubes Manager to switch your AppVM to a new template and see what
happens. I you don't have another template you can use
sudo qubes-dom0-update --action=search qubes-template
to look for a new template and then run
sudo qubes-dom0-update <template-name>
to install that new one. If all your AppVM's are using the same template
and they all do not run, then that might be the answer.
Let us know what you find out.
Steve
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