Trying to replace > cd /mnt/var/lib/qubes/servicevms mv sys-usb sys-usb.bak
with systemctl disabling the autostart of the VM. Could that work? Please have a look at the following instructions, modified what you wrote. I hope we could simplify/clarify for novice users and add this to the Qubes documentation. You should be able to fix this in grub: something like this - Interrupt the boot process and change the parameters to remove rd.qubeshideallusb, and add rd.break=cleanup. You'll be prompted to decrypt disks and then drop to shell. The root filesystem will be mounted ro at /sysroot. umount /sysroot mkdir /mnt/disk mount /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root /mnt/disk chroot /mnt/disk systemctl disable qubes-vm@sys-usb exit sudo umount /mnt/disk reboot -- 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/3ef756af-308d-83d8-2db4-f51e36f41e4c%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.