On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:47:43PM +0100, cubit wrote:
> I was running qvm-trim-template on my 6 templates - Qubes 3.2 -  but the 
> process looked to hang on 2 of them.   After 30 minutes of waiting (usually 
> 2-3 minutes max) I ctrl+c them
> This resulted in files being left behind blocking me from running 
> qvm-trim-template again on the problem ones.
> If I do  qvm-trim-template whonix-gw-14   I get the error
> Disk usage before:
> 2644484    /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/whonix-gw-14/root.img
> Creating temporary VM...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/qvm-trim-template", line 172, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/qvm-trim-template", line 115, in main
>     fstrim_vm.create_on_disk()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/000QubesVm.py", line 
> 1298, in create_on_disk
>     self.storage.create_on_disk(verbose, source_template)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/storage/__init__.py", line 
> 175, in create_on_disk
>     os.mkdir (self.vmdir)
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/lib/qubes/appvms/trim-whonix-gw-14'
> I though maybe I could delete the trim-whonix-gw-14 app VM but get this error 
> then
> 
> $ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/qubes/appvms/trim-whonix-gw-14
> $ qvm-trim-template whonix-gw-14
> Disk usage before:
> 2644484    /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/whonix-gw-14/root.img
> Creating temporary VM...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/qvm-trim-template", line 172, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/qvm-trim-template", line 115, in main
>     fstrim_vm.create_on_disk()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/000QubesVm.py", line 
> 1320, in create_on_disk
>     self._update_libvirt_domain()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/000QubesVm.py", line 
> 767, in _update_libvirt_domain
>     raise e
> libvirt.libvirtError: operation failed: domain 'trim-whonix-gw-14' already 
> exists with uuid 1dcd7cd5-aaa9-4b62-8254-73b8db63190b
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to rectify this so I can trim once again?
> 
> CuBit
> 
Read https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/remove-vm-manually/

The libvirt error shows you need to manually remove that qube.

qvm-remove just-db trim-whonix-gw-14

unman

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