[qubes-users] Can't seem to install pidgin on whonix VM + AppVM shortcut?

[TheCrispyToast]

Hey guys, I've tried rigorously to install pidgin package and after getting 
all the dependencies and errors worked out it finally installed. But then 
upon checking /usr/bin/ it doesn't appear. Has anyone got pidgin 
successfully working inside whonix VM?

Furthermore, how can one go about adding a shortcut? I've created a 
.desktop file and then used these instructions  
but
 
am not sure what the custom menu entry would look like inside the 
anon-whonix-vm.menu file would look like...


 Pidgin
 
 pidgin.desktop
//Do I put the whole path to the .desktop file? 
 


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Re: [qubes-users] installing latte-dock 0.9+ in dom0

[Sven Semmler]

On 12/30/20 4:30 AM, RastaBaby wrote:

now I figured out that I need the file *libpcre.so.1()(64bit)  *to update
qt5 ... I just found a package for fc26 but I don't find any solution do
install libpcre...


Hi RastaBaby,

it appears the version of Qt you need does not come with Fedora 25, 
which dom0 is based on. That probably also means that the KDE version 
you are running might be to old to run the thing you are trying to 
install (not sure though).


Bottom-line: you might be better of trying the Alpha of R4.1 which is 
based on Fedora 32 I think. The KDE stuff there should be much newer.


Sorry it didn't work out. There are a few KDE users here, they might be 
able to help you solve this.


Cheers,
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[qubes-users] Re: HCL - Dell Precision 5540

[tv.f...@gmail.com]

Actually one more thing - to get the suspend working, I had to add this to 
xen.cfg (to the "kernel" line)

mem_sleep_default=deep

regards
On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 9:27:40 PM UTC+1 tv.f...@gmail.com wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm successfully running Qubes on the model with i7-9750 CPU and and 
> Nvidia T1000 for about a month. Everything seems to be mostly working, 
> although I'm not using the discrete graphics at all (only the Intel UHD 
> 630).
>
> One thing I had to do to get the installer working was to tweak the UEFI 
> by adding noexitboot / mapbs.
>
> Note: Currently there seem to be some issues with the kernel-latest, as 
> described in https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6311. 
> Switching to the LTS kernel seems to be working - not sure if it has 100% 
> support for the CPU/chipset, it seems to be a bit noisier but hard to say.
>
> regards
>
>

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[qubes-users] Re: HCL -- Intel NUC10i7 issues with kernel-latest

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Yeah,

I think I'm having the same issue - I do see the login screen, but the 
upper half of the screen is just black. Switching to console and back fixes 
that and I can log in, but then there' are random glitches on parts of the 
screen/windows, etc. Disabling compositor mostly fixed that, but not 100%.

How did you install the 5.8.16 kernel? When I do something like

$ qubes-dom0-update kernel-lateat-5.8.16

it shows me the package, downloads it, but then it tells me "no package 
kernel-latest-5.8.16 available" so I'm a bit confused.

I'm currently running on 4.19.155 which works, but I'm not sure it fully 
supports the new CPU in the laptop (mainly the power management).

regards

On Saturday, December 26, 2020 at 12:04:35 AM UTC+1 ark...@gmail.com wrote:

> 5.9.14 does not make it to X11 (empty screen with cursor). 5.8.16 works 
> just fine.

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Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Disable lock screen / screenshot question

[Andrew David Wong]

On 1/2/21 9:05 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:

On 12/30/20 8:20 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote:

On 12/29/20 10:02 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:

[...]
When trying, it seems my Dom0 does not have a file manager in the 
menu. I had to run "thunar" manually from the terminal.


This is by design. Using a file manager in dom0 is a security risk and 
is therefore discouraged:


https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/security/security-guidelines.md#dom0-precautions 



So is there an alternative that gets the user script registered for 
saving a screenshot?




I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but there's:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/953

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[qubes-users] HCL - Dell Precision 5540

[tv.f...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm successfully running Qubes on the model with i7-9750 CPU and and Nvidia 
T1000 for about a month. Everything seems to be mostly working, although 
I'm not using the discrete graphics at all (only the Intel UHD 630).

One thing I had to do to get the installer working was to tweak the UEFI by 
adding noexitboot / mapbs.

Note: Currently there seem to be some issues with the kernel-latest, as 
described in https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6311. Switching 
to the LTS kernel seems to be working - not sure if it has 100% support for 
the CPU/chipset, it seems to be a bit noisier but hard to say.

regards

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[qubes-users] Q: attaching a partition to a VM vs. attaching the whole disk

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

I have an effect I'm wondering about:
May USB stick has partitions on it, one being FAT having a KeePass DB in it.
When I attach that partition to a VM (eg. vault) and try to access the 
partition, I see no mountable disk in the file manager (e.g. from 
KeePassXC).
However when I attach the whole stick to the VM, I see all partitions 
being offered to mount in the file manager under "Other locations".


Is this the way it should be? I'd like to attach only the partition 
needed, but usability forces me to attach the whole stick...


Regards,
Ulrich

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[qubes-users] Q: console messages booting debian-10 (switch_root: failed to mount moving /dev to /sysroot/dev: Invalid argument)

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

Looking at the boot messages on console for debuan-10, I see these:

...
Waiting for /dev/xvda* devices...
Qubes: Doing R/W setup for TemplateVM...
[1.279270]  xvdc: xvdc1 xvdc3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1024 MiB (1073737728 bytes)
no label, UUID=924589a7-5fee-4ed3-a7b2-fa46cbf7fcde
Qubes: done.
[1.309503] EXT4-fs (xvda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data 
mode. Opts: (null)

Waiting for /dev/xvdd device...
mount: /dev/xvdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
[1.317358] EXT4-fs (xvdd): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[1.323196] EXT4-fs (xvdd): mounted filesystem with ordered data 
mode. Opts: (null)
[1.568749] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0x max_cycles: 
0x733fdf79392, max_idle_ns: 881590829533 ns

[2.202412] EXT4-fs (xvda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
switch_root: failed to mount moving /dev to /sysroot/dev: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /dev
switch_root: failed to mount moving /proc to /sysroot/proc: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /proc
switch_root: failed to mount moving /sys to /sysroot/sys: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /sys
switch_root: failed to mount moving /run to /sysroot/run: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /run
[2.323383] systemd[1]: systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM 
+AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP 
+GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN 
-PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid)

...


Are those "failed to mount moving ..." error messages expected?

Happy new year, BTW ;-)
Ulrich

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Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Re: qvm-run multimedia nautilus nothing happens

[Ulrich Windl]

On 1/2/21 12:28 AM, Franz wrote:



On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 3:44 PM Steve Coleman 
mailto:stevenlcolema...@gmail.com>> wrote:




On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 5:12 AM Franz <169...@gmail.com
> wrote:


 > No, checking again if I put multimedia dependent from
another template
 > works, so the problem is the template.
 >
 > Last thing I did with the template was install a custom
disposable VM
 > connected with the template. I did not know that this may
end damaging the
 > template.
 >
Disposable VM settings shouldn't affect the template. What
happens if
you try to run nautilus from a terminal session to
"multimedia"? If it
doesn't start, that's the issue.


Cannot test it because neither gnome-terminal nor term start,
so?  Anyway I prepared a new template, reinstalled everything,
even the printer, and it works, but now I am scared by the
custom dvm thing.


The way to test things like this is to use "qvm-run -p 
program-name" and watch what errors bome back through that pipe.
Usually you will see something like "program not found" or some
error finding some basic resource that is required.

With dvm's this *is* more of a problem, but doing that same command
against its base templatevm might also give some insightful clues.


Thanks Steve,
I already tried qvm-run at the beginning of this thread, but it gives to 
reply, no error, nothing. it just froze trying to do that. Only CTRL c 
works to go on. Now tried to add -p as you suggested, but the result is 
the same.


Tried xterm, term, gnome-terminal, nothing works. Well the problem is 
solved because I prepared a new template, but it is good to remember to 
make a copy of the template before doing things that can break it.


I wonder: What happens if you run "journalctl -b -f" in multimedia while 
you try executing the commands?




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Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Disable lock screen / screenshot question

[Ulrich Windl]

On 12/30/20 8:20 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote:

On 12/29/20 10:02 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:

[...]
When trying, it seems my Dom0 does not have a file manager in the 
menu. I had to run "thunar" manually from the terminal.


This is by design. Using a file manager in dom0 is a security risk and 
is therefore discouraged:


https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/security/security-guidelines.md#dom0-precautions 



So is there an alternative that gets the user script registered for 
saving a screenshot?






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Re: [qubes-users] Installing qubes-tunnel on fedora-32-minimal?

[Stumpy]

On 12/19/20 11:54 AM, Chris Laprise wrote:

On 12/16/20 12:16 PM, Stumpy wrote:
Firstly, I was able to get the user contrib qubes tunnel going on a 
fedora-32-minmal template and it was great! (great meaning so much 
easier than the more manual methods; though its still not clear to me 
if it includes a kill switch)


The problem is fed31 has reached EOL so I wanted to install it on a 
fed32 template so I started with (actually I installed it earlier but 
wanted to show that it is indeed installed):


bash-5.0# sudo dnf install qubes-repo-contrib
Last metadata expiration check: 0:45:12 ago on Wed Dec 16 11:23:25 2020.
Package qubes-repo-contrib-4.0.7-1.fc32.noarch is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!


Then I tried to install the qubes-tunnel:

bash-5.0# sudo dnf install qubes-tunnel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:45:27 ago on Wed Dec 16 11:23:25 2020.
No match for argument: qubes-tunnel
Error: Unable to find a match: qubes-tunnel



I also tried to install qubes-tunnel on the proxyvm for sh*t and 
giggles but that didnt work either (same error). I looked in the 
/user/lib/qubes dir and qubes-tunnel wasnt there which explains why I 
get the error:


bash-5.0# sudo /usr/lib/qubes/qtunnel-setup --config
sudo: /usr/lib/qubes/qtunnel-setup: command not found

when i try to run it.

Thoughts?


You should try doing a 'dnf update' and then trying the install again. I 
just tried it on f32 and it worked.




Thanks, that worked however I run into another problem in that I cant 
seem to get vpns to work on anything except fed31minimal.
I have tried on centos minimal, debian minimal, fed31 minimal so I am 
assuming I am doing something wrong, but I dont know what as I AFAIK am 
doing the same thing i did with fed31.


I start with
sudo dnf install qubes-repo-contrib && sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade

then sudo dnf install qubes-tunnel

Intially I think I was just doing that and not installing anything else 
but in trying to figure things out I started installing packages that 
the minimal docs page says are needed for NetVM and VPN qube (things 
like openvpn and qubes-core-agent-networking 
qubes-core-agent-network-manager NetworkManager-wifi 
network-manager-applet wireless-tools notification-daemon gnome-keyring 
polkit and sakura, a term i can paste into)


The above now seems to work ok, but then I create an appvm - vpnfed32, 
select the template (centos/deb/fed32 minimals) then check the "provides 
network" then go to the Services tab and add qubes-tunnel-openvpn then 
click ok.


Then I make sure the template and new appvm are closed, then start up 
the vpnvm from dom0:


qvm-run -u root vpnfed32 sakura &

and run

/usr/lib/qubes/qtunnel-setup --config

then enter my vpn provider (PIA) username then password

then copy one of the pia .ovpn profiles to

/rw/config/qtunnel/qtunnel.conf

then shutdown the vpn vm, then open the settings for another appvm set 
vpnfed32 as the networking vm to vpnfed32 and then try to start the 
AppVM (that I just set to use vpnfed32) up but nada, no connection to 
the internet at all.


Is there something above that is incorrect? Or maybe a log I could post?

Thank you in advance

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