Hi folks, Thank you all for your responses. There is some significant new information at this point:
Last night I was able to install Linux Mint beside the other operating systems. It is not that I wanted to use Mint, it is just that by installing it it redid the GRUB file so now I can boot to Windows 7 or Qubes (or Mint). So that solves the first problem. (I had tried to do this previously but was unable to. Last night I deleted most of the files [which I was able to copy to an external hard drive] from the hard drive and apparently that made a difference.) However, now for some reason Qubes doesn't work right at all. The Dom0 domain doesn't load. (I can see that this is true because it isn't there and also I could read one of the error messages while the program was loading. It said something like "FAIL. Dom0 did not load.") So I am going to download a fresh copy of Qubes and then reinstall it. So it may be that after I reinstall Qubes some of these problems I have been having will be resolved. Nonetheless, I will answer the questions where appropriate that each of you posed because I appreciate your help and also because I may have the same issues when I reinstall. (Note: I am going out of town later today so it may be several days before I can reinstall Qubes.) Best regards, Vincent On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:29 PM, explodingbee . <exploding...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I installed qubes several days ago. I now have several problems and I > would appreciate some help: > > 1) *How can I open WIndows 7 again?* First, I intended to install Qubes > beside Windows 7, which was working fine. Instead I can only boot to Qubes > now. How can I have a dual-boot setup so that I can also go to Windows 7? > (Note: my files from Windows 7 were apparently not damaged and I have > recently managed to get apparently all of them off of the computer and onto > an external hard drive so they should be safe.) (I did read this file [ > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/] but it seems to say that one > needs to wipe out everything and reinstall Windows 7 and then reinstall > Qubes. Can't I fix the GRUB file somehow so that I can use my existing > installations and programs?) > > 2) *In Qubes the computer often gets slow as molasses.* I get error > messages saying "Warning: unresponsive script" sometimes. When I try to > open a VM it says that there is not enough memory and that I should close a > VM first. When the computer gets like this sometimes I click on things and > nothing happens or it takes forever for something to happen; sometimes I > can't even close windows because they don't respond. (I am using an HP > Elitebook 8540w laptop. It has 4 GB of RAM and an i7 CPU.) Also, when I > shut down the computer sometimes it gets stuck and does not shut down all > the way. It freezes with the Qubes splash screen there and the progress > bar indicating partial or complete progress. > > 3) *Problem relating to program installation:* When I install programs > in the Fedora or Debian templates they don't appear in the list of > available programs in the templates or in the VMs based on those templates > so I don't see how I can create shortcuts for programs in my VMs. > > 4) *Problem in getting a video player to work:* I have installed four > different video players (Snappy, Budgie, Banshee and Parole) and none of > them seem to be able to play videos I have downloaded (with Video Download > Helper and Firefox in an App VM). (I can get the video players to launch > not with the proper shortcuts but in another, awkward way, by going to > Domain: personal -> personal: Software and then clicking around until I get > to the right app which was previously installed and then clicking on > "launch.") Also, the default player, apparently called "Videos," doesn't > work. Am I missing something here? > > *This paragraph shows the problems which arise when I try to use each of > the above mentioned video players*. You may (or may not) want to skip > this paragraph. (I am including these video player error descriptions > partly because they may give a clue as to an overall problem here.) > (a) *Snappy*: The video player shows that a video has loaded but > then when I click play it does nothing. > (b) *Parole*: When I try to play a video I get the following error > message: "Error GStreamer backend error Could not intialize Xv > output." The only button to click on the error message dialogue box says: > "Close." > (c) *Banshee*: This video player doesn't play videos when I click > play. It sometimes causes an error message which reads: "Additional > multimedia codecs requires. An application is requesting additional > multimedia codecs." Then there is a button which reads "find in > software." (Other times when I click play after selecting a video the > video player just does nothing.) > (d) *Budgie*: This videos player does nothing when I click play > after a video which has been loaded into the program is selected. > (e) *Videos*: (Apparently this video player is called "Videos." It > is the default player.) When I select a video and then select "Play with > Videos" an error message comes up. It says: "H.264 (Constrained Baseline > Profile) decoder, MPEG-4 AAC decoder are required to play the file, but are > not installed." Then there is a button which says "Find in software." > When I click that button I get another error message which says > "Unfortunately, the H.264 (Constrained Baseline Profile) decoder and MPEG-4 > AAC decoder you were searching for could not be found. Please see this > website for more information." > > 5) *I can't update Fedora:* I have tried to update Fedora 23 to Fedora > 25. I am able to download the update but then I click "Install" and > nothing happens. I also click "restart and install" just below that and > again nothing happens. What is going on with that? (I just tried that > again and I got the following error message this time: *"Sorry this did > not work Upgrade to Fedora failed. Details Detailed errors from the > package manager follow:** Error running transaction: installing package > filesystem-3.2-37.fc24.x86_64 needs 135168 on the /rw filesystem")* > > So I am frustrated. I had a whole life on Windows 7 and now I can't do > most of what I used to do. (Do you think that maybe I downloaded and > installed a bad copy of Qubes?) Help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Vincent Gillespie > exploding...@gmail.com > 978-830-4392 <%28978%29%20830-4392> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. 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