On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 6:33:30 PM UTC+1, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 2017-01-19 10:30 AM, Антон Чехов wrote: > > On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 6:11:19 PM UTC+1, Reg Tiangha wrote: > >>> Ah, okay. Mine don't start anymore. They jump from green to yellow but > >>> the AppVM and templateVM don't start anymore. So I can't change anything > >>> in the template anymore which makes it unusable. > >>> I did everything by the book, like described by coldhak: > >>> https://github.com/coldhakca/coldkernel > >>> I tried the kernel mostly on debian based VM. I built mostly debian based > >>> apps after some time. Debian 8, that is. > >>> > >> > >> Hmm...do you get a qrexec error? This behaviour (in my experience) > >> usually means that the u2mfm kernel module didn't get compiled or > >> installed correctly. On Debian VMs, you need to make sure the kernel > >> header package is installed first before the kernel image package to > >> make sure that u2mfm is compiled and installed correctly and the proper > >> initramfs file is generated. > >> > >> If you need to fix things in your template, you can switch back to a > >> normal Qubes kernel using Qubes Manager, rather than using pvgrub2. The > >> machine should come up fine after that and you can double-check your > >> settings that way. > >> > >> So maybe retry compiling and installing the coldkernel again by pulling > >> a fresh copy off of github and starting from scratch, and if things > >> still don't work, try that again using a fresh template. > > > > No qrexex error. > > Re update: I meant both cases, like you assumed but primarily recompiling > > with changes to the coldkernel.config. I did all these steps again, like > > described. That includes update grub. I did have the same errors mentioned > > earlier in the thread. (/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB > > drive for /dev/mapper/dmroot. Check your device.map.) but other than that > > everything looked fine. Something must have gone wrong. > > I will try again like you described. Thanks very much for your help and the > > tip with switching back to normal kernel...so obvious that I would have > > missed it. > > > > Well, keep us posted on how it goes. To be fair, I'm still running > 4.8.15 of the kernel and haven't had a chance to update it to 4.8.17 so > there could very well be some issues with the latest version that I > haven't encountered yet. My plan is to attempt the upgrade this weekend > when I have more time to play around with things.
Will do. I used the latest kernel 4.8.17 and there were no problems until I recompiled so I guess it should work. I mostly run AppVM behind a proxyVM. I will try again and report how it went. -- 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/1fa9c6e5-2264-40ce-9483-832a563f9c0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
