-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:33:17PM +0000, Anon wrote: > I'm attempting to encrypt an external drive when experiencing a > freeze/crash: > > After running in the sys-usb VM: > sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 USBDRIVE001 > <drive password> > sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/mapper/USBDRIVE001 -n USBDRV1 > > the window becomes unresponsive. No application errors are visible. > Also, the VM seems to be unresponsive as I cannot run anything else in > that VM (and any other open windows beccome unresponsive too). > > If I have a certain amount of windows open in that VM (3?) e.g. 2 > terminals and one file browser, the windows just disappear and the state > of sys-usb in Qubes VM Manager turns yellow. > > At this point, I can only restart the VM, which seems then to operate > normally. > > I tried it a few times and the last time I tried it I got an exclamation > point in Qubes VM Manager under the state column for sys-usb. When > hovering over it, it says: "qrexec not connected." As usual, restarting > the VM works fine. > > I do not think I'm out of memory, as I have closed all other > non-essential VMs and should have 8GB of RAM but might have 6GB (I don't > know how to check physical RAM amounts without rebooting). The drive > itself is 1.8TB.
It may still be out of memory problem, because sys-usb has statically assigned 300MB, so even if you have no other VMs running, it will not use free memory. This is mostly requirement to handle PCI devices, which require continuous memory region. But you can increase this assignment in sys-usb settings. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXxafeAAoJENuP0xzK19cszCUH/iVAi7iy/iBZvtjnKF3P11us f49ljnVi/cmLW8vc0KNqepcHsyKTgVstC7GlKONMrqoTS1EU/DhtRUk8ffYBpzcK JTYOOMvf/smWo+hD02x5QchIyYOeETfkcvDTBcXbZbcRIZN/+88oKODfZnRLeAE5 lSTc53MMkY9a21WJduVzbL2aYnJzQSWNc4v0UCBE8dlhSgjZ7kuBygVgtZPveOtC ao9vn+OOOM4nf3v+dxcCZO04ODGNTUDkHV7QC6c7HfMz7mw1sQafKdfBEIdT0x7B XryUZbDq4RHsFtB71gjIT0UE28R78IIdqLk1VtIhZgxOWuyAorFJKQym4Xu5aMY= =MN3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20160830153559.GB21245%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
