On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Yuraeitha <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 7:52:10 PM UTC, Francesco wrote: > > After last dom0 update it properly restarted but gave some qubes manager > errors. > > > > > > Second restart keeps restarting on a loop Every time giving the enclosed > screen. > > > > > > Best > > Fran > > I'd suspect you can probably bypass it by selecting your old kernel before > the update. I've had that issue a few times my self on Qubes and various > other Linux systems. If you run Grub, then instead select "Advanced" and go > in and select the second kernel instead of the top one (which is the newly > installed and now default kernel). > The lowest kernel is the one installed before the one that worked before. > Qubes saves up to 3 kernels by default, if needed it can be extended > indefinitely, but 3 is usually enough. > It worked. Many thanks. I had to use supergrubdisk.org USB booting key and with that was able to choose which kernel to boot on. Many thanks it saved my work. Best Fran > > If you installed Qubes over EFI/UEFI instead of Legacy BIOS, then you'll > need to pick a live boot medium, or use the Qubes installer to enter rescue > mode, and then navigate to your /boot/efi/'somewhere here abouts' and find > your xen.cfg file. In this file you can edit which kernel EFI boot mode > should boot with. > > If any of the associated kernel/module updates broke something else, like > for example a hardware like Wifi/networking, then it becomes much more > tricky. It's often, in my experence at least, typically easy to recover > from bad kernels and at least boot it up. The question is more, if > something else stopped working too, albeit in my experience it's typically > enough to just pick the last kernel. > > Also, if you succesfully get into Qubes again, then I'd recommend you > increase your max saved kernels with 'sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf' and > locate the line called Installonly_limit=3 to 5 or abouts. > > The reasoning for this, is because if another future kernel upgrade also > fails, then you'll get no more chances of easy recovery if all working > kernels were automatically deleted during the update. If you set it to 5, > it'll then save 5 kernels. > > Just be sure your kernel partition has enough disk space to house older > kernels associated with the number of kernels you choose to save. > > -- > 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/ms > gid/qubes-users/0db23e3e-aa44-4e91-85f3-4eacb4467abd%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAPzH-qA%2BG0NQKmQgjLUEhM5pHgwX1q2WMXaSZrmwfN4E8eYrdw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
