Re: [qubes-users] Help Needed - Qubes OS Installation Error with LUKS

2023-09-23 Thread Steve Coleman
Did you reuse an older partition having a LUKS partition without "reclaiming" it? In order for you to install using an old LUKS partition without overwriting a new files stem it would need to know the key, but the installer may not be set up to ask for it. Just a guess. On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 2:33

Re: [qubes-users] "GVFS is not available"

2023-08-12 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Aug 12, 2023, 12:54 PM wrote: > ales...@magenta.de: > > I am using a fresh installation of Qubes 4.1.1. > > > > When I use the File Manager Preferences tab there is a message > > indicating that GVFS is not available. You need to install the gvfs package in the template you are using

Re: [qubes-users] Template for X?

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 4:53 AM Sandy Harris wrote: > Is there a template to make a qube that just runs as an X terminal? > If you turn on Qubes debugging for any AppVM it will start within a terminal window with a command line interface. If that AppVM has X installed you should still be able to

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Contrib repository

2022-08-21 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:29 AM 'unman' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 10:02:15PM +0200, Qubes wrote: > > qubes-dom0-update --repo=qubes-contrib-dom0-r4.1-current --action=list > Q1: Is there any way to list these in a way that can actually be

Re: [qubes-users] Fedora rpmfusion repos

2022-08-01 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 9:27 AM Qubes wrote: > Qubes wrote: > > Is the documentation on this [page] to enable the rpmfusion repos still > > relevant? > > > > Doing "sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled rpmfusion-free", gives me > > an error, "Error: No matching repo to modify: rpmfusion-free". > >

Re: [qubes-users] Problems with announced Fedora 35 templates

2022-06-12 Thread Steve Coleman
On 6/12/22 12:35, Viktor Ransmayr wrote: Hello Demi, Am So., 12. Juni 2022 um 18:18 Uhr schrieb Demi Marie Obenour : > > What is the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d in your fedora-34 template? > > You might have repositories pointing at the R4.0 repos. > > Here's the

Re: [qubes-users] Problems with announced Fedora 35 templates

2022-06-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 1:10:45 AM UTC-4 viktor@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Qubes Community, > > > Here's the content of /etc/qubes-rpc/ : >> >> [user@sys-firewall ~]$ cd /etc/qubes-rpc/ >> [user@sys-firewall qubes-rpc]$ ls >> qubes.Backup qubes.PdfConvert

Re: [qubes-users] Problems with announced Fedora 35 templates

2022-05-29 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 4:39 AM Viktor Ransmayr wrote: > Hello slcoleman, > > stevenlc...@gmail.com schrieb am Samstag, 28. Mai 2022 um 21:54:40 UTC+2: > >> >> >> Thanks for your quick reply! > > However, when I try to list the available templates using the > 'qvm-template' command, I get the

Re: [qubes-users] Problems with announced Fedora 35 templates

2022-05-28 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, May 28, 2022, 3:28 PM Viktor Ransmayr wrote: > Hello Qubes Community, > > I run into a problem already in the very first step of the standard > installation method: > > If I perform "sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-35" in a 'dom0' > terminal, I receive the following error

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Re: Qubes OS 4.1-rc3 has been released!

2022-01-10 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 11:15 AM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Scat: > > > TPM: Device not found <---Is this Anti-Evil Maid" ? > > Yes. > > VT-D settings look OK. Qubes will warn on install if something required > is missing. > Anybody try using a vTPM or TPM

Re: [qubes-users] Systemd terminating qubesd during backup?

2021-10-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On 10/11/21 14:07, Rusty Bird wrote: Steve Coleman: > I seem to have an intermittent problem when my backup scripts are running > late at night. > My qubesd is apparently being shutdown (sent a sigterm signal) by systemd > during my long running backup sessions which then causes

[qubes-users] Systemd terminating qubesd during backup?

2021-10-11 Thread Steve Coleman
I seem to have an intermittent problem when my backup scripts are running late at night. My qubesd is apparently being shutdown (sent a sigterm signal) by systemd during my long running backup sessions which then causes an eof pipe close exception and qvm-backup then receives a socket

Re: [qubes-users] Unable to install templates in Qubes OS 4.1beta

2021-10-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On 10/11/21 15:55, 799 wrote: ... but if I try install via: [user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-33 ... I can see that it will download the package but I get: Using sys-net as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time... Last metadata expiration

[qubes-users] Systemd terminating qubesd during backup?

2021-10-11 Thread Steve Coleman
I seem to have an intermittent problem when my backup scripts are running late at night. My qubesd is apparently being shutdown (sent a sigterm signal) by systemd during my long running backup sessions which then causes an eof pipe close exception and qvm-backup then receives a socket

Re: [qubes-users] Networking with debian10-minimal instead of fedora-33

2021-06-30 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 10:55 AM 'taran1s' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to make work the sys-net and sys-firewall under > debian-10-minimal template, instead of fedora-33, but without success. > Fedora is annoying with its updates and also I would like to

Re: [qubes-users] Trying to create an OSINT VM with Qubes Fedora template: Need help getting pip to work

2021-06-08 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021, 11:36 AM Chrome wrote: > For one, I'm not installing chrome anytime soon. I'll try to stick to > open source, > There are times when Firefox doesn't want to play nice with some websites, and trying an alternative browser can help identify those issues. When that happens I

Re: [qubes-users] Trying to create an OSINT VM with Qubes Fedora template: Need help getting pip to work

2021-06-06 Thread Steve Coleman
On 6/6/21 2:12 PM, Chrome wrote: Hello there all, I am currently following the instructions to create an OSINT VM Michael Bazzell's "Open Source Intelligence Techniques 8th Edition." Its a good book. I do wish he had a chapter for Qubes in it. I think the only reason Michael doesn't push

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

2021-05-27 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, May 26, 2021, 5:21 PM William Oliver wrote: > On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 15:53 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > > > > Office 365 _without_ MS-Windows? Are you kidding? Maybe Microsoft > > provides it for other platforms, but _why_ would one use the > > Microsoft > > product? (I'm using

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Re: Fedora 32 approaching EOL

2021-05-26 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:45 AM Ulrich Windl < ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > On 5/13/21 2:36 AM, Steve Coleman wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2021, 5:52 PM Ulrich Windl > > > <mailto:ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de>> wrote: >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Fedora 32 approaching EOL

2021-05-12 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, May 12, 2021, 5:52 PM Ulrich Windl < ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > On 4/30/21 1:31 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > Dear Qubes Community, > > > > Fedora 32 is scheduled to reach EOL (end-of-life [1]) on 2021-05-25. > > I have a question on

Re: [qubes-users] detect tcp/ip connections of executables due to qubes firewall restrictions

2021-05-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, May 10, 2021, 2:57 PM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > lik...@gmx.de: > > Hi! > > > > Due to the current implementation/design of qubes firewall, it's hard to > use domain names for firewall rules, because of "static" DNS resolution: > >

[qubes-users] R4.0.4 Wiin10: block device dom0:loop1 not available

2021-04-12 Thread Steve Coleman
I have been having problems with starting a Win10 VM for a while now. Previously Qubes would always timeout and shut it down even though the VM was up and running fine. My impression is that once the VM was forcibly terminated/killed due to a timeout, usually the next time it would start up

Re: [qubes-users] Help creating menu entry in a template based AppVM where the App itself is not installed in the template

2021-04-03 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 3:58 PM one7two99 wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Crossover (to start Office 2010) within Qubes and have some > trouble with the App-shortcuts. > > The setup: > > - I have a template VM ("t-debian-10-crossover") which is based on > debian-10-minimal and which has crossover

Re: [qubes-users] Salt updates fails on Fedora-33

2021-03-03 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:28 AM lok...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 March 2021 at 18:18:09 UTC+8 Mike Keehan wrote: > > I could not clone the fedora 33 templates, with a similar error message >> about "not clean", until I started and stopped the template. It's been >> OK since then. >> > > I

Re: [qubes-users] trouble with apt-get on dabian

2021-02-28 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:49 AM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Steve Coleman: > > > I installed the stock Debian-10 rpm yesterday and it also fails to update > > using the default proxy. The whonix templates based on Debian work >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Howto grab/capture sound of one VM

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 6:02 AM evado...@gmail.com wrote: > interesting. bump > > суббота, 13 февраля 2021 г. в 17:15:19 UTC, qu...@ixls.eu: > >> Dear Qubes-Users, >> >> how can I grab/capture the audio-output of one VM? >> > Not sure exactly what you mean by capture. To play the audio, or record

Re: [qubes-users] trouble with apt-get on dabian

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 4:17 AM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Steve Coleman: > > I have a somewhat confusing issue with debian-10 updates and would like > any > > suggestions on where to look. > > > > All my fedora temp

[qubes-users] trouble with apt-get on dabian

2021-02-22 Thread Steve Coleman
I have a somewhat confusing issue with debian-10 updates and would like any suggestions on where to look. All my fedora templates update just fine. Dom0 updates but it gives some errors through the return pipe. can't get terminal type, defaulting to vt100. please set the TERM env variable. can't

Re: [qubes-users] Win10VM: User name or password incorrect at startup

2021-01-29 Thread Steve Coleman
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:43 PM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Steve Coleman: > > > Q: Where is this other supposed/incorrect password being passed into it > > from, and is there any way to go back to not needing this login >

[qubes-users] Win10VM: User name or password incorrect at startup

2021-01-29 Thread Steve Coleman
I have a situation with a Windows 10 AppVM that I am hoping someone with more experience might be able to answer. I created my first Windows 10 VM a few months ago using the qvm-create-windows-cube.sh script and it seemed to work well enough. But just recently when I just wanted to start it to

Re: [qubes-users] Can't access flash drive

2021-01-18 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:42 AM 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Shawn Creighton: > > > > I have a Sandisk Cruzer 8GB flash drive I've had for a few years, when I > > plug it in to Qubes it shows up in the available devices but when I > connect > > it to any appvm

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes not reading flash drive

2021-01-17 Thread Steve Coleman
I have several Sandisk Ultra_Fit 32Gb which refuse to even be seen by my sys-usb (fedora-32 based template) but works just fine passing the device if I were to use dom0, which obviously I don't like to do but the devices are useless otherwise. Are you using a sys-usb vm with its own controller?

Re: [qubes-users] How do you think about the clipboard inter-VMs

2021-01-06 Thread Steve Coleman
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 11:04 PM pillule wrote: > > Hello, > > I wonder how do you manage your computing life with the problem of > the clipboard / file sharing. > > > > I guess most of us cheats theses rules sometimes ; > if one deploys post-installation scripts in dom0, > or takes notes in a

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

2020-12-25 Thread Steve Coleman
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.

Re: [qubes-users] Are "smart" monitors/TVs a security issue?

2020-11-27 Thread Steve Coleman
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 6:01 PM Alex Smirnoff wrote: > Assuming poor software quality of typical TV firmware and codecs, DVB > should be pretty easy exploitable. However, I doubt a compromised TV could > do serious harm to your computer via HDMI. Speaking on your demo.. there is > a lot of factors

Re: [qubes-users] Are "smart" monitors/TVs a security issue?

2020-11-27 Thread Steve Coleman
Without a Nation State being involved, the most likely threat would come from a permiscuous WiFi in the TV auto-connecting to any open networks in your area. If you are sure that is not the case then it should be 'safe enough' for most people. Side channel attacks take tools, skills, and physical

Re: [qubes-users] Xfburn not seeing usb

2020-11-24 Thread Steve Coleman
You may need to run the software in the VM which contains the physical hardware (e.g. the USB controller}. Passing a memory device generally works but when you need special access to the physical hardware such as burning a DVD then this pass-through method may not work correctly. If your USB

Re: [qubes-users] HCA reports - some advice please

2020-11-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:31 PM Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 11/23/20 10:06 AM, Steve Coleman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:33 AM Andrew David Wong > wrote: > > > I have a question about the HCL process and page display that I have been > > wondering about. &g

Re: [qubes-users] HCA reports - some advice please

2020-11-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:33 AM Andrew David Wong wrote: > > If you can fix them first, that would be a great help! I think it would > make things easier for our HCL maintainer. :) > > Usually, it's just the model number for that product, e.g., "FX-8320" is > short for "AMD FX(tm)-8320

Re: [qubes-users] Automatic updating of extra RPMs from add-on repos in Fedora template-based VMs?

2020-11-15 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 1:36 PM Matt McCutchen wrote: > > I have a bunch of VMs based on one Fedora TemplateVM. In most cases, > I'm willing to install any Fedora package needed by any of the VMs in > the TemplateVM. However, due to security concerns, I have one VM that > runs Zoom, one that

Re: [qubes-users] unable to start gnome-terminal or terminal on fedora-32 template

2020-11-15 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:49 AM Franz <169...@gmail.com> wrote: > > qvm-run -a fedora-32 gnome-terminal > fedora-32: command failed with code: 1 > > Try adding the -p option so you can see any error message coming from that command on the other side. Whatever comes back will give you a clue as to

Re: [Qubes OS Community Forum] [Mailing Lists/qubes-users] [qubes-users] R4.0.4 RC1 Unable to delete or backup certain qubes

2020-11-15 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 12:51 PM Mike Keehan via Qubes OS Community Forum < qubes...@discoursemail.com> wrote: > Mike_Keehan > November 14 > > Well, the thin pool is LVM, but if the VM is offline, there should not be > a problem. Guess you'll have

Re: [qubes-users] R4.0.4 RC1 Unable to delete or backup certain qubes

2020-11-14 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 4:48 AM Mike Keehan wrote: > On 11/14/20 3:29 AM, Steve Coleman wrote: > > I installed R4.0.4 RC1 and have been having some very odd issues with > > just a few of the VM's I restored from backups, thus I have been > > restoring, cloning, testing, and

[qubes-users] R4.0.4 RC1 Unable to delete or backup certain qubes

2020-11-13 Thread Steve Coleman
ssing that these two problems are likely related, but I'm not sure how. I'm guessing there is something wrong with qubesd. I have attached the relevant logs for the delete problem. Any ideas? thanks, Steve Coleman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[qubes-users] HCL Dell XPS 8930

2020-11-11 Thread Steve Coleman
at that a while back but didn't have the memory to run so many VM's needed to support that architecture. It should be doable now. thanks, Steve Coleman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

[qubes-users] R4.0.4 RC1 "cannot execute qubesdb-daemon"

2020-11-11 Thread Steve Coleman
I installed R4.0.4 RC1 on a new machine and restored my VM's from a backup. Somewhere along the way, I started getting "cannot execute qubesdb-daemon" errors and could not start some VM's that I had not yet run since the restore process. After a bit of sleuthing, I found that some of the log

Re: [qubes-users] Signal app doesn't start (Fedora)

2020-08-26 Thread Steve Coleman
rotonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 6:42 PM, Steve Coleman < > stevenlcolema...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 5:53 PM Crowphale wrote: > >> Making progress... >> >&

Re: [qubes-users] Signal app doesn't start (Fedora)

2020-08-26 Thread Steve Coleman
; Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:38 AM, Steve Coleman < > stevenlcolema...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:50 PM 'Crowphale' via qubes-users < > qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: >

Re: [qubes-users] Signal app doesn't start (Fedora)

2020-08-22 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:50 PM 'Crowphale' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Sorry for stupid question, but how do I start Signal (or any app) from > terminal? Is there some qvm-* command? Or how do I find the Signal binary? > > I have not installed signal but I'll at

Re: [qubes-users] Can’t download large files

2020-08-08 Thread Steve Coleman
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 1:50 PM wrote: > Thanks for the reply. The system still prioritizes the tmp file even after > I change the settings and use a usb. Do you know any other command that can > disable the tmp folder? > Strange, I have never had any problem telling firefox where to download

Re: [qubes-users] Can’t download large files

2020-08-07 Thread Steve Coleman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 4:22 PM wrote: > I’m trying to download a 1.6gb file but after it’s complete I get: > > there is not enough room on the disk to save > /tmp/mozilla_user0/fN+pjzFx.part > > I made sure the download was directed to another file after download in > Firefox but it still keeps

Re: [qubes-users] Re: External Fully Encrypted SSD Drive. What do you think?

2020-07-29 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:33 AM Qubes wrote: > On 7/29/20 1:56 AM, ludwig...@gmail.com wrote: > > *What if it saves a spare set of encryption keys somewhere in its flash > for > > the "lawful investigator" to find?* > > > I am not aware of any proof to support this line of thinking. > In the

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Does qubes protect against all firmware viruses ?

2020-06-12 Thread Steve Coleman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:35 PM wrote: > Well that's the problem indeed, knowing if you are clean from firmware > viruses in the first place. But i don't suspect i have firmware viruses and > i have new pc. It takes a lot of time and money and no one would bother to > infect specific user. I am

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Libreoffice Calc windowsize is 1x1 cm ..

2020-05-29 Thread Steve Coleman
I loved the idea of the macros to manage the desktop in general as I would really like to pin Qubes Manager to desktop 1 and not have it start on whatever desktop the person last logged out from. But that is obviously fixable now. I did do a little digging into this LO window size issue just

Re: [qubes-users] QUBES Friendly Version

2020-05-13 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, May 13, 2020, 6:35 AM Eva Star wrote: > > >> Personally, I consider systemd both a mistake & a security hazard, >> >> > Can you please share more details about this? Personally, I don't use both > of them, but wan't to know. > You use systems if you use almost any flavor of Linux. The

Re: [qubes-users] What's your flow for new templateVM?

2020-05-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On Mon, May 11, 2020, 10:26 AM 'Ryan Tate' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I manually maintain this big text list of packages and just use > that to manually update the fresh templateVM to what I > need. There's typically also some non package installs, which I > include

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes better dove tailed for Journalists, and Human Rights Workers.

2020-05-09 Thread Steve Coleman
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:13 PM Catacombs wrote: > A Journalist or a Human Rights investigator, I think are more comfortable > with ease of use, not secure. > There is always a trade-off between security and usability for sure. One trade-off for the non geek users is to enable networking in the

Re: [qubes-users] Anyone here try VMware in place of QUBES?

2020-04-30 Thread Steve Coleman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 11:03 PM Catacombs wrote: > I have used VMware on a Mac. I do not the idea of OS X being the base of > my security, however like they say about a lot of Apple, it just works. > I have to ask why you reject OSX for being the base of your security? Because you can not

Re: [qubes-users] Q: LV (disk) as fake USB stick?

2020-04-21 Thread Steve Coleman
Spoofing the hardware information (e.g. lshw, hdparam, lspci, etc) of a virtual drive is going to be difficult. As an alternative you might want to play with installing it on an actual USB stick and then clone that partition over to your virtual drive. If the software then refuses to run because

Re: [qubes-users] What does ISP see when my computer connects?

2020-04-06 Thread Steve Coleman
On 4/5/20, Catacombs wrote: > And what the ISP sees after I start a Qube? > > How can I see what my MAC is on a receiving website. Documentation suggests > that it would see a spoofed MAC. But that spoofed MAC needs to be > unpredictable and look normal. Nobody but your local router will ever

Re: [qubes-users] Cloning Qubes onto a USB flash drive.

2020-04-06 Thread Steve Coleman
On 4/5/20, Catacombs wrote: > Could the cloned version of Qubes on the USB Flash drive be used on another > hardware to actually run Qubes? Why not simply boot from The Qubes install media and install Qubes onto the USB drive, and then restore your choice of AppVM's from an existing backup of

Re: [qubes-users] Where to find the directory of a attached mobile phone ?

2020-02-28 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2/28/20, A E wrote: > fre. 28. feb. 2020 kl. 21.07 skrev : > >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:01:04PM -0800, A wrote: >> > I have attached my mobile phone to a VM, but can’t find its directory >> > in the file manager of that VM. >> >> in which way did you attach it? >> do qvm-block or qvm-usb

Re: [qubes-users] SSD and safety.

2020-02-26 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2/26/20, ggg...@gmail.com wrote: > I discovered there is no program to clear an SSD. If you are using an Opal 2 compliant SSD and had created an encrypted range before formatting your partition then all that data disappears instantly when you reset the SSD. The one requirement is the SSD

Re: [qubes-users] Running sshd on an AppVM

2020-02-24 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2/24/20, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:03:26AM +0100, dhorf-hfref.4a288...@hashmail.org > wrote: >>On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 08:59:18AM +, tetrahedra via qubes-users >> wrote: >>> like only debian's `apt-search` will search the binary names, fedora's >>> `dnf

Re: Re: [qubes-users] Scary Systemd Security Report

2020-02-15 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-02-12 01:09, ronp...@riseup.net wrote: APL external email warning: Verify sender qubes-users+bncbci3h2v54mhrbjnnr3zakgqe4jht...@googlegroups.com before clicking links or attachments On 2020-02-11 11:39, unman wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 01:34:15AM -0800, ronp...@riseup.net wrote:

Re: [qubes-users] Trouble Accessing Network Manage

2020-02-07 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-02-07 02:43, 'e.sparks15' via qubes-users wrote: *APL external email warning: *Verify sender qubes-users+bncbcy5z3pfy4frbqfk6tyqkgqewhij...@googlegroups.com before clicking links or attachments Hello! I am having trouble anonymizing my MAC address -- the documentation says that I

Re: Re: [qubes-users] How to use the USB modem HUAWEI E3372h to connect to the internet in Qubes OS 4.0.3 ?

2020-02-05 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-02-04 16:00, M E wrote: *APL external email warning: *Verify sender qubes-users+bncbdzmb4gysmcbbf5x47yqkgqetesd...@googlegroups.com before clicking links or attachments tir. 4. feb. 2020 kl. 20.15 skrev M E >: tir. 4. feb. 2020 kl. 00.26 skrev Frank

Re: [qubes-users] How to open a text editor in qubes after installation when sys-firewall configuration failed ?

2020-01-28 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-28 14:59, M wrote: How can I open a text editor in Qubes to view logs and edit xen.cfg file ? You can usually count on vi being on any linux distribution > sudo vi /boot/efi/EFI/wubes/xen.cfg And I can’t get internet access from the pc as sys-firewall failed. To trouble shoot

Re: [qubes-users] "Qubes Domains": Add tools/commands to the tray icon (for DVM)

2020-01-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-23 09:42, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Major Lazor: Am 23.01.20 um 15:26 schrieb 'awokd' via qubes-users: Major Lazor: Is it possible to add tools or commands to the tray icon "Qubes Domains" ? Its not exactly the same thing as adding a permanent menu for dispVm's but I have

Re: Re: [qubes-users] Re: Write-error on swap-device after having a full storage

2020-01-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-23 04:08, Vít Šesták wrote: *APL external email warning: *Verify sender qubes-users+bncbct5hvg33eerbeofuxyqkgqeaao4...@googlegroups.com before clicking links or attachments Thank you! This has allowed me to mount the volume to a DVM, which has allowed me to fix the issue. Just

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Write-error on swap-device after having a full storage

2020-01-22 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-22 12:22, Vít Šesták wrote: *APL external email warning: *Verify sender qubes-users+bncbct5hvg33eerbs4julyqkgqezk4s...@googlegroups.com before clicking links or attachments I have tried to debug it further. Unfortunately, I am unable to attach the VM's drive to a DVM: $

Re: Re: [qubes-users] Open several files in THE SAME dispVM

2020-01-21 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-21 05:38, Major Lazor wrote: APL external email warning: Verify sender r.wiesb...@web.de before clicking links or attachments Thank you for your ideas. From my understanding all your ideas that would mean to open a Terminal and run ./script.sh a.ext b.ext c.ext d.ext typing this

Re: [qubes-users] Open several files in THE SAME dispVM

2020-01-17 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-17 11:40, r.wiesb...@web.de wrote: Hey, Is there a way to open a bunch of files in the same dispVM ? Yes, I can copy/move those files and open them in the dispVM, that is what I do right now - but it would be nice if there was a simpler way to do so. You could write a set of

Re:[qubes-users] Xen Orchestra installation on Qubes-OS possible?

2020-01-13 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-13 09:50, n1ete wrote: I recently played with xcp-ng in my lab and discovered the "Xen Orchestra Unified Appliance". its an xen-ready vm to manage and orchestrate xcp-ng backends. is it possible to deploy the disk image on qubes aswell? this would be realy great, since i dont

Re: [qubes-users] Renesas uPD720202 uPD720201 usb controllers

2020-01-10 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-09 09:27, David Hobach wrote: I can confirm the issue for that chipset. Maybe the firmware loading fails, because it's not shipped with the kernel? I don't know... Ah... https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=uPD720202+firmware -->

Re: [qubes-users] Are there any security benefits of setting up standalonevm instead of appvm?

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-08 12:30, Vasiliy wrote: Are there any security benefits of setting up standalonevm instead of appvm? 1. Thunderbird and other communication tools sometimes can be compromised and malicious code can affect all programs installed. I am scared that even if I don't use a program in

[qubes-users] Renesas uPD720202 uPD720201 usb controllers

2020-01-07 Thread Steve Coleman
A number of months ago I was happily backing up my system at home using my sys-usb with a dedicated USB controller that worked right out of the box. I didn't need any drivers or anything special. It just worked. Then something happened, likely during an update, which could be like 6 months

Re: [qubes-users] deb or rpm for download and installation?

2020-01-07 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2020-01-07 16:43, M wrote: Then, how to install for example Libreoffice ? Assuming this is fedora rpm based Template/VM: Start the software template VM that your AppVM is based on, and then at the command prompt type: > sudo dnf install libreoffice ...answer "y" at the prompt to

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-30 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-12-30 11:28, Steve Coleman wrote: On 2019-12-29 23:32, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 01:44:28PM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: tetrahedra via qubes-users: On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:57:16AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Unfortunately I

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-30 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-12-29 23:32, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 01:44:28PM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: tetrahedra via qubes-users: On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:57:16AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Unfortunately I need to get work done so have to reboot to

Re: [qubes-users] AppVMs start but zero of the apps are starting? (with logs)

2019-12-19 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-12-18 18:47, Stumpy wrote: On 2019-12-19 01:16, Stumpy wrote: On 2019-12-18 19:08, Steve Coleman wrote: On 2019-12-18 07:57, Stumpy wrote: Last night I noticed that I was not able to start an appvm via dom0 (qvm-run appvm programname) so then tried to start another app in another

Re: [qubes-users] AppVMs start but zero of the apps are starting?

2019-12-18 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-12-18 07:57, Stumpy wrote: Last night I noticed that I was not able to start an appvm via dom0 (qvm-run appvm programname) so then tried to start another app in another appvm, nothing. I had a bunch of things open still from earlier in the afternoon so figured I needed to reboot, did,

Re: [qubes-users] unsupported hardware detected with the installation of qubes 4.0.1, and 4.0.2-rc2

2019-12-10 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-12-10 10:26, rickey wrote: Good morning Everyone, I have installed previously Qubes 3.2.1 on a Dell small form factor desktop pc, and lenovo x120e, and I was able to use them. When I tried to install the Qubes versions mentioned above on the same hardware, it is showing the message

Re: [qubes-users] Shutting down a VM when applications close

2019-11-27 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-27 07:52, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: DispVMs shut down automatically when the launched application closes. Is it possible to enable this for certain applications in certain AppVMs as well? For example I may not want my "resource-heavy-apps-vm" to keep running after

Re: [qubes-users] Lenovo Precision 7540 available without vPro OR with Intel ME Disabled

2019-11-26 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-26 16:05, Lambda wrote: Lenovo's 2019 laptop is currently on sale and their CPU selection[1] includes: - i7-9750H: no vPro, No Out-of-Band Systems Management - i7-9850H: vPro, Intel ME Disabled Strangely enough in Europe[2] they list it as: - i7-9750H: no vPro, No Out-of-Band Systems

Re: [qubes-users] Days since last backup

2019-11-22 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-22 04:41, Bernhard wrote: > However, I am stuck on how to determine how many days it has actually been since the last backup. >>> >>> What you are looking for is this command: >>> >>> qvm-prefs --get $vm backup_timestamp > > Nice. In case of a "manual backup", can you also set the

Re: [qubes-users] Days since last backup

2019-11-21 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-20 22:12, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: > The built-in Qubes backup functionality is great but it's very easy to > forget to run a backup and end up going days (or weeks, or months...) > without it. > > However, I am stuck on how to determine how many days it has actually > been

Re: [qubes-users] QSB #053: TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel (XSA-305)

2019-11-15 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-15 05:28, Chris Laprise wrote: On 11/15/19 3:01 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: On 2019-11-14 8:50 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: One of the packages came down with an incorrect signature: *** ERROR while receiving updates: Error while verifing kernel-4.19.82-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64.rpm

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc2 has been released!

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-11-04 22:12, Andrew David Wong wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2019-11-04 6:05 AM, Anac wrote: Hi all, Is it just me or does the iso really not fit onto a regular DVD? I tried several burn programs - same result. The 4.8 GB iso doesn't fit onto a 4.7 GB DVD.

Re: [qubes-users] Dell Optiplex 7060 Mini - Qubes 4.0.2-rc1

2019-10-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-10-22 16:58, Peter wrote: I've installed qubes on a dell desktop that has no PS2 support, and only one USB controller.  So it uses a USB keyboard & mouse.  During installation I saw no prompt for creating a sys-usb, which I understand is the default when you boot with a USB keyboard.

Re: [qubes-users] Anyone tried Anbox ('Android in a box') under Qubes

2019-10-16 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-10-16 11:57, Jin-oh Kang wrote: Sorry I might be out of touch, but can't you just install Android directly on your HVM without a container? Anbox is meant to run Android *without* a hypervisor like Xen which is the whole point of using Qubes. Anbox does allow you to run Android under

Re: [qubes-users] Does installing things with sudo affect my template and therefore all VMs that use this template?

2019-10-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-10-11 14:16, Guerlan wrote: The root folder is shared, only the /home is unique for each VM. Does that mean that is I instal anything with sudo in one VM, it will affect the template and therefore all other VMs? When you install software in /usr or /opt in the template VM it will be

[qubes-users] fyi - System76 Will Ship 2 Linux Laptops w Coreboot

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Coleman
No need to even install your own coreboot, and risk bricking your brand new system. 1) Galago Pro is apparently already on the Qubes HCL 2) Darter Pro - not yet on the HCL Currently on preorder, so I doubt anyone has tried this one with Qubes yet (32 GB DDR4, Intel UHD Graphics,

Re: [qubes-users] Easiest way to redirect USB to a VM?

2019-10-08 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-10-08 17:35, Guerlan wrote: On Ubuntu it always worked out of th ebox,I only had to choose the rigth USB option in Android. How can I install things in dom0? Is it posible? To search what is available: dom0$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --action=search then: dom0$ sudo

Re: [qubes-users] Easiest way to redirect USB to a VM?

2019-10-08 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-10-08 16:44, Guerlan wrote: I tried that too, but when I run qvm-usb I get an empty list of usb devices. Running lsusb obviously gives me a lot of usb devices (on dom0). So I thought sys-usb is needed for USB to work. What am I doing wrong? I think the trick is to: 1) Make sure your

Re: [qubes-users] Making a DispVM permanent

2019-09-23 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-09-21 07:27, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Is there a way to turn currently-running DispVM instance into a regular permanent AppVM, which I can delete later? I'm not sure it this helps or not, but you could try pausing the dispvm and restart it when you need it. I don't know

Re: [qubes-users] sys-net

2019-09-18 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-09-18 08:43, unman wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:04:53PM +0200, haaber wrote: today I had a look in logs of my router, and discovered that it logs my qubes machine as "sys-net". I did not change anything in my "out-of-the-box" sys-net, so I presume that the observed behaviour is

Re: [qubes-users] HCL - Purism Librem 15 v3 w/ TPM module

2019-09-16 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-09-15 02:38, Jeff Warner wrote: I am brand new to QubesOS and hope to be able to update this entry over time. I'm happy to start with this HCL report. The prospects look quite promising. Welcome to Qubes! Let us know if you have any questions -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] No network

2019-09-16 Thread Steve Coleman
On 2019-09-15 12:45, kegd...@gmail.com wrote: Networking is enabled by state file, and WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file. It se es no network ando manually adding a WiFi does not connect. Sys-net networkmanager[520] has a new ethernet device detected (vif2.0) but network

Re: [qubes-users] best and less expensive Lenovo think pad

2019-08-13 Thread Steve Coleman
On 8/13/19 6:28 AM, 799 wrote: Hello <27casanov...@gmail.com > schrieb am Di., https://github.com/one7two99/my-qubes/blob/master/docs/coreboot/README.md Let me know if you need any help. I do have a few questions for anyone experienced with the x230 Q1:

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