On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 2:53:45 PM UTC+1, Unman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:17:00AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > Ok let me start off by saying I am new to qubes. I have been enjoying using > > it for the past month. However I have come across a major problem.... I > > cannot log on to qubes or access any of my vm's after trying to enable > > wifi. As my keyboard and mouse have been disabled and I cannot enter user > > password. > > > > Let me try and explain the problem in full here > > > > So I was following this tutorial on youtube > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwbQ06h8Qo > > > > from internet.me who I found to be very informative. Unfortunately for me > > when the msgbox appeared saying "do you allow domain sys-usb to execute > > qubes.InputMouse operation on the domain "dom 0" everything freezes > > permanently and I cannot use keyboard or mouse any more. > > > > Eventually I restart machine and cannot input disk password however when I > > remove the hide_all_usb section from the grub I can now enter disk password > > but cannot enter the user password that follows. I am stuck here and cannot > > access any of my information which is important to my work. I have tried > > using a PS2 keyboard but have had no success. I have tried googling similar > > problems but they all assume I can access the dom0 domain. I would greatly > > appreciate any assistance anyone could provide. > > > > It sounds to me as if you have not succeeded in having the sys-usb > proxy mouse and keyboard to dom0. I think that was covered in the video > where he sets the policy to "allow" - obviously you didn't follow this > step. > If you think you DID do this, try unplugging and replugging the mouse > and keyboard to see if you can get one or other working. If you just get > that prompt, you didn't configure policy correctly. > > You don't say why a PS2 keyboard doesn't work - it should. Do you get any > response to key presses? (Lights coming on etc?) > I don't know what level of competence in Linux you have, (as opposed to > Qubes). You could boot from a live usb, and stop sys-usb from starting: > this would at least allow you back in and you would be able to > configure the box correctly.
Thanks so much for response, much appreciated. I tried to use usb to ps2 adapter for keyboard which I thought should work but did not. I will try and get my hands on a PS2 keyboard tomorrow and see if it is successful. I will update info once this is complete. Thanks again -- 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/c7410afe-46c5-4f45-b3d8-2cf87663a9a8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
