[qubes-users] Error updating Whonix Workstation 17

2024-03-12 Thread Ulrich Windl
I had updated the Whonix Workstation 17 successfully, but a System Check suggested that there are updates outstanding, so I tried another round: Unfortunately there was an odd error: ... Get:20 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports/main amd64 Packages

[qubes-users] 80x24 geometry used by qvm-console-dispvm

2024-03-06 Thread Ulrich Windl
Haven't done it for ages, but can't you configure the size using X resources? Like this: Now to set the size of the console itself, you would add this to the ~/.Xresources file:xterm*geometry: 127x37 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users"

Re: [qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-23 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I kind of disagree: When passing the URL as "$1", it is passed as one single parameter. The user cannot be expected to know to how much more levels of shell script the parameter will be passed to, so any deeper layers have to keep the single parameter. That is: Every layer of shell script

Re: [qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/22/24 22:15, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 2/22/24 21:54, 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:25:18 +0100 Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! I managed to configure Thunderbird to run any links via a DVM. However today I realized that URLs with parameters are truncated (Qubes

Re: [qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/22/24 21:54, 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:25:18 +0100 Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! I managed to configure Thunderbird to run any links via a DVM. However today I realized that URLs with parameters are truncated (Qubes-OS 4.2) after the first parameter

[qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I managed to configure Thunderbird to run any links via a DVM. However today I realized that URLs with parameters are truncated (Qubes-OS 4.2) after the first parameter it seem. For example I have the URL .../viewtopic.php?f=21=196913=1023049=1023049 When I view it in Firefox, the

[qubes-users] Updating fedora-38: "b'warning: runaway fork() in Lua script\n'"

2024-02-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I saw these messages when upading fedora-38 today. I didn't run QuebesOS for a while, so there were a lot of updates, but "runaway fork()" worries me a bit... Kind regards, Ulrich --- Updating fedora-38 b'warning: runaway fork() in Lua script\n' b'warning: runaway fork() in Lua

[qubes-users] 4.2 issue with pam_sss.so

2024-01-19 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I just noticed these messages (in my upgraded Qubes OS): Jan 20 01:22:39 dom0 sudo[25013]: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib64/security/pam_sss.so): /usr/lib64/security/pam_sss.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Jan 20 01:22:39 dom0 sudo[25013]: PAM adding faulty

[qubes-users] Re: Some issues during / after upgrading to 4.2.0

2024-01-19 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1/5/24 00:20, Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! As I had some time, I performed the upgrade to Qubes OS 4.2.0. Unfortunately there were a few unexpected findings: * my debian-12-dvm template no longer offers Firefox: Qubes settings say: "Application missing in template (firefox-esr.de

[qubes-users] Minor bugs in qubes manager's "Global Config"

2024-01-19 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I just discovered the "Global Config" in Quebes manager. I found some minor bugs: In "Split GPG" the "learn more" hyperlink is displayed as text. I found no way to copy that text. The link in "URL Handling" is a link, but it leads to a very generic documentation page that says nothing

[qubes-users] HCM report

2024-01-19 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Just in case: There is a HCL report for an old system. Everything works. Brand: ASUS Model: All Series CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Chipset: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c00] (rev 06) Graphics: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]

[qubes-users] The Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-certified!

2024-01-10 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
I had a look and was surprised: A German keyboard layout would cost almost 400€ extra (while 16 GB more RAM cost only about 80€). Also the CPUs seem rather slow (1.2 GHz), and no option for recent AMD CPUs. The configuration interesting for me would have been around 1700€ with s weak CPU and

[qubes-users] USB issue in 4.2.0?

2024-01-04 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Hi! It seems there is an issue with USB devices in Qubes OS 4.2: When shutting down s VM that has an USB device mounted, thst USB device is not returned to the list of available devices. I had to unplug/replug it to be able to reuse. Kind regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because

[qubes-users] Some issues during / after upgrading to 4.2.0

2024-01-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! As I had some time, I performed the upgrade to Qubes OS 4.2.0. Unfortunately there were a few unexpected findings: * fedora-38 is obsolete already? I thought fedora-37 is??? * my debian-12-dvm template no longer offers Firefox: Qubes settings say: "Application missing in template

[qubes-users] Fedora 37 approaching EOL

2023-10-22 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Hi! Wondering about "Dom0 upgraded to Fedora 37 (#6982[https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6982])": Is it planned to upgrade before final release? Regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Issue with "Qubes release 4.2.0-rc3" | USB Installation Media not detected in UEFI BIOS

2023-10-05 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
I didn't try the ISO, and I know little about UEFI booting, but current Linux ISOs seem to be partitioned CD-ROMs: A type 0xef EFI partition (4MB), and a type 0x17 hidden NTFS partition (that is actually ISO9660, containing the actual files)... Kind regards, Ulrich -- You received this

[qubes-users] Odd kernel boot message in debian-12

2023-09-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! After having eventually managed to install the Debian-12 template, I noticed this message when the current kernel is booting: Sep 03 01:41:01 localhost kernel: kfence: initialized - using 2097152 bytes for 255 objects at 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) Those "(ptrval)"

[qubes-users] Error installing Debian-12 template

2023-08-28 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Following the instructions at https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/debian/#installing I repeatedly got this error messages: $ sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-12 Redirecting to 'qvm-template install  debian-12' Downloading 'qubes-template-debian-12-0:4.0.6-202307240307'...

Re: [qubes-users] HCL - Gigabyte B650E Aorus Master - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

2023-08-10 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Edwin, your findings are interesting, but hard to follow, because you didn't write which devices are connected to which USB port; or did I miss it? Kind regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this

[qubes-users] Installation problem on Dell Inspiron R15 laptop

2023-08-01 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Hi! Actually you won't have much fun with only 8 GB RAM; 16 is probably OK, and 32 or more is nice. Remember that at least four operating systems have to run (Dom0, net, firewall, app). Kind regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[qubes-users] QubesIncoming folder in /tmp ??

2023-06-30 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Hi! I wonder: Couldn't a systemd service do that? Ulrich -- 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 view this

[qubes-users] suspend on Dell Latitude 3520 (i5, GeForce MX350)

2023-06-07 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Do you recognize any hardware activity when trying to resume? What about journal messages in Dom0? Regards, Ulrich -- 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

Re: [qubes-users] Trying my luck

2023-05-30 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Just wondering: Is the remote end Windows, and could some virus scanner block the rename request? You know Windows has kind of strange locking rules. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[qubes-users] Updating the fedora template (36->38)

2023-05-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Following the instructions to update the fedore-36 template to fedora-38, I saw these errors: ...   Running scriptlet: pulseaudio-16.1-4.fc38.x86_64    2866/2866   Running scriptlet: kernel-modules-core-6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64   2866/2866   Running scriptlet:

[qubes-users] Audioconference and screen sharing in Torbrowser

2023-02-17 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Can't you use "some DVM" connected via sys-whonix with Firefox instead? -- 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.

Re: [qubes-users] Passing a YubiKey to a VM?

2023-02-08 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
OK, after reading the document my original question still stands: Not having sys-usb I can mount USB sticks by "delegating" them to a VM. My question was whether a similar mechanism exists fur a YubiKey instead of an USB stick. Regards, Ulrich 08.02.2023 18:05:25 Ulrich Win

Re: [qubes-users] Passing a YubiKey to a VM?

2023-02-08 Thread Ulrich Windl (Google)
Sorry, I should have found that! 07.02.2023 23:59:40 Andrew David Wong : > On 2/7/23 12:24 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote: >> How do you use a YubiKey (OpenPGP card, etc.) in Qubes OS? > > In case you (or anyone else reading this) has not already seen it, there is a >

[qubes-users] Passing a YubiKey to a VM?

2023-02-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! If you cannot do "USB separation", can you allow to connect a VM to a YubiKey attached on USB? Or: How do you use a YubiKey (OpenPGP card, etc.) in Qubes OS? Regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To

Antw: [EXT] [qubes-users] Yubikey LUKS with Qubes?

2023-02-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> "'Jeremy Hansen' via qubes-users" schrieb am 31.01.2023 um 10:24 in Nachricht <2d985c80-a4d0-45a6-b0d2-512c62335dfb@Canary>: > I’m trying to figure out the things required to use my Yubikey to decrpyt my > LUKS root filesystem. As I understand it, dom0 in 4.1.1 doesn’t have the > functions

[EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Shutdown Delay

2023-01-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
No, doesn't work either; I had tried it before. -- 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 view this discussion

[EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Shutdown Delay

2023-01-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
No NFS involved; wouldn't it have to be NFS in dom0 then? Shudder! -- 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

[qubes-users] Issues updating whonix

2022-12-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! When trying to update Whonix, I got these errors: Updating whonix-gw-16 Error on updating whonix-gw-16: Command '['sudo', 'qubesctl', '--skip-dom0', '--targets=whonix-gw-16', '--show-output', 'state.sls', 'update.qubes-vm']' returned non-zero exit status 20. whonix-gw-16: --

[qubes-users] ALSA/pulseaudio issue?

2022-12-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
Shortly after starting Qubes OS 4.1 I noticed this message in syslog: Dec 08 20:10:48 dom0 qrexec-policy-daemon[4745]: qrexec: qubes.GetDate+: sys-firewall -> @default: allowed to dom0 Dec 08 20:10:48 dom0 pulseaudio[7749]: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] 4.1: Still requiring "systemd.mask=lvm2-monitor"

2022-11-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 4/17/22 23:03, Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! I just wanted to point out that booting Qubes OS 4.1 still hangs with today's updates being applied to Dom0. I have to add "systemd.mask=lvm2-monitor". Regards, Ulrich As I learned recently that I can start a debug shell on tty9

[EXT] Re: [qubes-users] xentop's disk I/O

2022-11-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Thanks for explaining! Ulrich -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit

[qubes-users] xentop's disk I/O

2022-11-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
. Is it because sys-net is a "HVM"? Regards, Ulrich Windl -- 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...@googl

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Re: Task bar disappeared?

2022-11-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 10/28/22 19:52, 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Scat wrote: Update: - I typed: xfce4-panel into the Dom0 terminal - I received errors in the Dom0 terminal and as mentioned the Task bar appeared It didn't survive a reboot of my computer. I

[qubes-users] Q: Keeping multiple snapshots of private data

2022-09-18 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I thought on 4.0 there was some setting specifying how many LVM snapshots to keep per VM. I cannot find such a setting in 4.1.1. Is my memory wrong? If not how can I do that? Also: What types of operations would be allowed on LVM snapshots without disturbing Qubes OS?: May I rename

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Re: Anti Evil Maid (AEM) - Qubes 4.1.1 - boot fails to mount when booting with AEM

2022-09-18 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 9/18/22 03:08, Kyle Walters wrote: Sep 16 20:29:27 dom0 systemd-fsck[2696]: /dev/sda1 is in use. Sep 16 20:29:27 dom0 systemd-fsck[2696]: e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Sep 16 20:29:27 dom0 systemd-fsck[2694]: fsck failed with exit status 8. Sep 16 20:29:27 dom0 systemd-fsck[2694]:

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] placement of windows after re-logging in

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 9/6/22 07:19, Boryeu Mao wrote: When logging back in, the windows in the workspace are re-opened - is it possible to have them positioned just as they were before the last logging out?  I have R.4.1.1 with xfce.  Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Problems with debian-11 after VM update attempt

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 8/9/22 11:11, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 11:29:57PM +0200, Ulrich WIndl wrote: Hi! I have a problem 8-( After using Qubes OS after a longer break, I tried to install all updates. That worked for all template VMs except debian-11. Even when re-trying after all

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Installer does not work, no templates to install

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 7/31/22 15:23, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: 'felix' via qubes-users: I want to reinstall Qubes 4.1, but I cannot select any templates in the installer. Qubes 4.0 and 4.1 were already running successfully on my device and Qubes 4.0 can still be installed successfully. In the install

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Regarding Impact of US Export controls on Qubes.

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Actually I think you might have even problem _in_ the country where you use it. Also: Do you _export from_ the US, and is Qubes OS an US product? As seen with PGP, preventing to export open source software is somewhat ridiculous. Ulrich On 7/10/22 18:44, Anish M wrote: Hi , i am

[EXT] Re: [qubes-users] "Upgrading" by installing

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! As it turned out I needed just an extra boot. At least when having mounted the backup volume in Dom0 manually I was able to restore when I couldn't before. Another confusing thing is that when leaving the first screen nothing seems zo happen, but I noticed the CPU fan spinning up for a few

[qubes-users] Time wtong if RTC runs local time

2022-09-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Traditionally my TTC tuns local time. That wasn't a problem in Qubes OS 4.0, but in 4.1 Qubes OS assumes RTC runs UTC. How can I fix that? Regards Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Antw: [EXT] [qubes-users] "Upgrading" by installing

2022-09-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I could really need some help on how to restore my v4.0 backups into v4.1.1 ... Regards, Ulrich >>> Ulrich Windl schrieb am 03.09.2022 um >>> 14:56 in Nachricht <8d882b46-f189-41da-91a0-c0db11d8f...@rz.uni-regensburg.de>: > Hi ! > > So eventually

[qubes-users] Antw: [EXT] Re: [qubes‑users] Problems with debian‑11 dvm

2022-09-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> Andrew David Wong schrieb am 04.09.2022 um 20:47 in Nachricht : > On 9/3/22 2:18 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote: >> Hi! >> >> It seems in Qubes OS 4.0 I can't select debian-11 as template for a dvm. > What are the reasons? >> >> Regards, >> U

[qubes-users] Re: Problems with debian-11 dvm

2022-09-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
I meant 4.1 (4.1.1) of course... 03.09.2022 23:18:52 Ulrich Windl : > Hi! > > It seems in Qubes OS 4.0 I can't select debian-11 as template for a dvm. What > are the reasons? > > Regards, > Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[qubes-users] Problems with debian-11 dvm

2022-09-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! It seems in Qubes OS 4.0 I can't select debian-11 as template for a dvm. What are the reasons? Regards, Ulrich -- 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

[qubes-users] Problems with debian-11 after VM update attempt

2022-08-08 Thread Ulrich WIndl
Hi! I have a problem 8-( After using Qubes OS after a longer break, I tried to install all updates. That worked for all template VMs except debian-11. Even when re-trying after all the rest was updated and the system rebooted, it won't work. Even worse I can start a debian-11-based app VM,

[qubes-users] Q: sys-firewall using "100% CPU" while updates are being installed

2022-04-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I have (by today's standards) just a slow DSL line to download updates. Still I see spikes where sys-firewall is at "100% CPU" (according to xentop),so I wonder what CPU-intensive task sys-firewall might perform. IMHO it cannot be packet filtering (the purpose of a firewall), because my

[qubes-users] 4.1: Still requiring "systemd.mask=lvm2-monitor"

2022-04-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I just wanted to point out that booting Qubes OS 4.1 still hangs with today's updates being applied to Dom0. I have to add "systemd.mask=lvm2-monitor". Regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from

[qubes-users] 4.1 qubes manager dumped core

2022-04-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I have saved the journal message about qubes manager dumping core in 4.1. As Thunderbird will ruin the formatting if I paste it here, I attached the message. The coredump happened when some software was updated in VMs. Regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are

Antw: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Problems found in Qubes OS 4.1.0

2022-03-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> E JR schrieb am 30.03.2022 um 19:24 in Nachricht : > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 20:57 Ulrich Windl > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> >> Apart from the boot problem after installation (which I have a work-around >> now) I found a few more glitches: >>

Antw: [EXT] [qubes-users] Problems found in Qubes OS 4.1.0

2022-03-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> "Ulrich Windl" schrieb am 30.03.2022 um 01:57 in Nachricht <62439cd402a100048...@gwsmtp.uni-regensburg.de>: > Hi! > > > Apart from the boot problem after installation (which I have a work-around > now) I found a few more glitches: >

[qubes-users] Problems found in Qubes OS 4.1.0

2022-03-29 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Apart from the boot problem after installation (which I have a work-around now) I found a few more glitches: After restarting sys-net (after having installed updates for defora) a connection to the network card could no longer be established; I had to do a power-cycle. Syslog messages

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] 4.1.0 installation failure

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/25/22 01:01, Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! So after my failed USB stick, my power supply had failed, too 8-( When having got a new stick and a new power supply, I tried to install Qubes OS 4.1.0 on an external disk that had some old Qubes OS 4.0 on it. I chose a custom setup, creating

[qubes-users] Q: Access files on Android mobile?

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Some time ago Android stopped presenting it's disks as block devices via USB (so that you cannot "mount" them any more on the PC), so now it used PTP or MTP to transfer files. While that works with a typical Linux file manager, I was not able to do that from a VM. Is that possible

[qubes-users] Re: Should the footer at the bottom of the mailing list be deleted?

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 3/9/22 22:25, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: The footer on each message is rather annoying, mostly because it breaks digital signatures. Should it be set to the empty string, or do its benefits outweigh the drawbacks? I wouldn't care that much about the footer if the content is kept intact,

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Re: Qubes 4.1 qrexec issue?

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 3/9/22 12:20, 'taran1s' via qubes-users wrote: Is this mailing list still active or one needs to better go to a different place? Wouldn't reading the list answer the question? ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] blkback errors in dmesg

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/16/22 22:06, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: Occasionally, when my system is under heavy load, it will freeze for a few seconds. During this time, the pointer is still reasonably responsive, but nothing else is. When the freeze ends, I get these entries in dmesg: Feb 16 13:37:23 dom0

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Selescting any option from the install screen just loops back

2022-03-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/16/22 03:51, Scarecrow [USMC] wrote: Hey. I am new to Qubes, and am first trying to install it now. For reference, I have this https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c07060711  laptop. I initially posted this problem on the Qubes forums, but

[qubes-users] 4.1.0 installation failure

2022-02-24 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! So after my failed USB stick, my power supply had failed, too 8-( When having got a new stick and a new power supply, I tried to install Qubes OS 4.1.0 on an external disk that had some old Qubes OS 4.0 on it. I chose a custom setup, creating partitions LUKS, PC, VG, and LVs as instructed.

Aw: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Cannot boot 4.1.0 medium

2022-02-15 Thread Ulrich Windl
Tobias >>> Killer schrieb: Hi, IMHO you should first check if the image on your USB stick is broken. See https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7030#issuecomment-956398816 Regards, Tobias Am 12.02.22 um 20:15 schrieb Ulrich Windl: > Hi! > > > I downloaded and chec

[qubes-users] Cannot boot 4.1.0 medium

2022-02-12 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I downloaded and checked the Qubes OS 4.1.0 image and wrote it onto an USB stick. When inserting the stick to boot (on a different computer), I'm offered UEFI boot and normal boot by BIOS. "Nice, UEFI" I thought, but somehow that does not work (see attachment). Well, I think UEFI boot

[qubes-users] Re: HCL report for my T480s 40GB RAM.

2022-02-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 2/2/22 14:36, Ymec Holding B.V. | ICT Department wrote: Please find attached my HCL report for my T480s 40GB RAM. Furthermore I noticed an error in the HCL. A T490s is listed as a T470s I noticed because it mentioned a i7 Whiskey lake CPU and a T490s type # 20nx000gmz (this is a T490s) So

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Keep hard disk mounted when PC goes into suspend mode

2022-02-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1/21/22 11:44, Michael Singer wrote: Dear Qubes community, I am trying to permanently mount a hard drive in such a way that it will not be removed when I put the computer into suspend mode. Unfortunately, it does not work when I do the following: 1) dom0: qvm-usb attach --persistent

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

2022-01-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1/15/22 18:22, Scat wrote: Thanks all for the help...making progress...really appreciate the responses As I continue to explore the new 4.1rc3 another issue comes up that I can't remember experiencing with 4.0 and it seems important: When I try to back up my system and insert a WD

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Qubes 4.0 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700T CPU @ 2.40GHz

2022-01-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1/4/22 17:07, Peter wrote: Am running 4.0, fully patched, with a CPU capable of 2.4GHz, but Qubes reports 800MHz. xentop - 10:57:04   Xen 4.8.5-36.fc25 10 domains: 1 running, 9 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown Mem: 33345840k total, 28558708k used, 4787132k free    CPUs: 6 @

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Re: HCL - Dell Precision M4800

2022-01-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1/1/22 01:50, IX4 Svs wrote: On 31 Dec 2021, at 23:42, IX4 Svs wrote:  I have been using Qubes 4.0.x on this laptop for some time with no major issues (only sleep/wake doesn't work), so I thought I'd install 4.1-rc3 today. First impression is that most things work (good resolution to

[qubes-users] Q: Thunderbird extension: "open URL in VM..."

2021-12-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! As it seems, there is a Thunderbird extension (Qubes attachments) allowing to open an attachment in a VM, but I'd like to have an extension that allows to open an URL in a VMs web browser easily, too. Is there one already? Regards, Ulrich -- You received this message because you are

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

2021-12-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12/29/21 12:20 PM, TheGardner wrote: If you want to get the lastest version, just install/upgrade to 4.1rc3. This version is already working for most of the things and I'm sure, it will work for your daily things also. I wouldn't bother with 4.0.4 any more at this point of stage. Actually

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

2021-12-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12/29/21 3:34 AM, Scat wrote: ... (PS Just donated before year end to the Qubes project...keep going developers and community! You do great stuff!) ... Me too ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] "Cannot connect to qrexec agent for 60 .." - how to change this timeout?

2021-12-31 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12/20/21 3:37 AM, Oleg Artemiev wrote: Re all. I've slow disk on my qubes PC. Sometimes when I start VMs it tells that it can't connect to qrexec & fails to start automatically - I've to start again manually & then on the second time the disk reads faster due to cache & it succeeds. Where

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Upgrading debian instructions are wrong

2021-12-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
for the reply. In fact I found out later reading https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template/debian/upgrade/#release-specific-notes Maybe there should be anchors for each debian release, so the referrer could point to specific instructions. Regards, Ulrich regards, Fred. On 12/16/21 8:43 PM, Ulrich

[qubes-users] Upgrading debian instructions are wrong

2021-12-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Following https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template/debian/upgrade/ I read: [user@debian- ~]$ sudo sed -i 's///g' /etc/apt/sources.list [user@debian- ~]$ sudo sed -i 's///g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list Continuing the instructions the upgrade was amazingly fast, so I doubt, looking

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] dnf remove lies to me (removing whonix-15 templates)

2021-11-30 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/21/21 9:39 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Ulrich Windl: qvm-template-postprocess: error: No Qube with this name exists Maybe try to fake it out by cloning some other template to "whonix-ws-15", then run again? Hmm: The template is no longer visible in Qubes Mangager

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Verifying signatures

2021-11-30 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/30/21 12:32 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: On 11/29/21 12:06 PM, 'Rune Philosof' via qubes-users wrote: When I follow the guide on https://www.qubes-os.org/security/verifying-signatures/ I get the following result ``` [vagrant@fedora ~]$ gpg2 --check-signatures "Qubes Master Signing Key"

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] XSAs released on 2021-11-23

2021-11-30 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/27/21 11:03 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Qubes: Is there Qubes documentation outlining the steps to increase the size of /boot, or does one follow general disk management, with tools like using GParted for example. Although the disk is a LUKS encrypted volume. Can one decrypt,

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] XSAs released on 2021-11-23

2021-11-30 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/26/21 3:47 PM, Qubes wrote: 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Qubes: And that is it. When I run update from CLI I get this, "Error Summary - Disk Requirements:     At least 33MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem." Is that normal behavior? The disk /boot lives on is

[qubes-users] dnf remove lies to me (removing whonix-15 templates)

2021-11-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Following the instructions how to remove obsolete templates, I have a problem with both old whonix templates. The problem goes like this: [master@dom0 ~]$ rpm -qa qubes-template-\* qubes-template-debian-10-4.0.1-201912251612.noarch qubes-template-whonix-ws-15-4.0.1-201910102356.noarch

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] headset recommendation for video conferencing with good audio quality

2021-11-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/16/21 11:38 PM, lik...@gmx.de wrote: Hi! I'd like to ask for recommendations for headset for video conferencing. It has been said that my bluetooth headset with slack or microsoft teams do have much worse audio quality with qubes than with windows. The issue with modern bluetooth

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] video conferencing: high dom0 cpu load by pulseaudio

2021-11-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/15/21 11:35 AM, Peter Palensky wrote: I use a video VM for MS Teams, Zoom, etc. and dom0 top shows >10% cpu load for pulseaudio and pacat-simple-vchan (associated with that video VM). Is that normal? It drains my battery (Dell XPS13, kernel 5.4.88-1, Qubes 4.0) really quickly. Even

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Installation start text leads to a blank screen.

2021-11-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 11/2/21 1:15 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Shadow Wolf: Hi.  I'm trying to install Qubes on my laptop, but everytime I load the USB drive it spawns a bunch of text followed by a blank screen.  I tried partitioning the ISO at 4 GB as recommended by the trouble shooting page, but sadly,

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Installation start text leads to a blank screen.

2021-11-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 10/31/21 10:32 PM, Shadow Wolf wrote: Hi.  I'm trying to install Qubes on my laptop, but everytime I load the USB drive it spawns a bunch of text followed by a blank screen.  I tried partitioning the ISO at 4 GB as recommended by the trouble shooting page, but sadly, no luck.  I have

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Qubes does not boot any more. Very abruptly. Who can help?

2021-11-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 10/30/21 9:01 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Michael Singer: I have just solved the problem; the system starts up normally again. The solution was to overwrite the second and faulty installation on the pcie nvme disk. I do not understand why my working sata installation scans the pci

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Extract image file from Qubes 4.x

2021-11-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 10/25/21 11:28 AM, r.wiesb...@web.de wrote: In Qubes 4.x the images are no longer ordinary files accessible from the dom0 file system. So how can I extract them as VM images (.img files in Q 3.x) in Qubes 4.x? In the wiki I only find how to delete, but not how to extract an image fom LVM.

[qubes-users] Q: Anybody running Qubes-OS on TUXEDO Nano Pro?

2021-11-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I'm wondering: Does anybody run Qubes OS on a TUXEDO Nano Pro - Gen11 (e.g. with AMD Ryzen 7 4800U)? Maybe this configuration (see https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Computers-/-PCs/AMD-Systems/TUXEDO-Nano-Pro-Gen11.tuxedo#): Current Configuration Product No.:

Antw: [EXT] [qubes-users] Q: Problem updating whonix-gw (sdwdate)

2021-10-06 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> Ulrich Windl schrieb am 06.10.2021 um >>> 00:31 in Nachricht <12f193b4-b6de-96fc-b6a1-de237e4de...@rz.uni-regensburg.de>: > Hi! > > Upgrading the whonix-gw template resulted in an unexpected error: > > Updating Qubes App Menus and advertising featur

[qubes-users] Q: Problem updating whonix-gw (sdwdate)

2021-10-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Upgrading the whonix-gw template resulted in an unexpected error: Updating Qubes App Menus and advertising features... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4) ... Processing triggers for tex-common (6.16) ... Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr

[qubes-users] Q: Upgrading whonix-ws, auto-remove packages?

2021-10-05 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Following the instructions, my upgrade ended with this message: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: acl anon-iceweasel-warning apt-file binaries-freedom bsdmainutils bsdtar command-not-found cpp-8 curl-scripts dctrl-tools dkms firejail

[qubes-users] Re: QSB-069: Multiple Xen and Intel issues

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 6/9/21 3:06 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: ... User action required = Users must install the following specific packages in order to address the issues discussed in this bulletin: For Qubes 4.0, in dom0: - Xen packages, version 4.8.5-34 - Linux kernel

[qubes-users] Re: QSB-068: Disconnecting a video output can cause XScreenSaver to crash

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 6/5/21 2:42 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: ... User action required = Users must install the following specific packages in order to address the issues discussed in this bulletin:   For Qubes 4.0, in dom0:   - xscreensaver 5.45-5   For Qubes 4.1, in dom0:   -

[qubes-users] Re: [HCL] ThinkPad T430

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 6/4/21 1:28 AM, Sven Semmler wrote: A dream has come true! * ThinkPad T430 * Coreboot/Heads with TOTP & HOTP (Nitrokey) * ME cleaned & disabled * Qubes OS R4.0.4 all debian-minimal, memory optimized Upgrades: * i7-3740QM * 16 GB RAM * 2 TB SSD * Intel Wireless 7260 * 1080p display

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] The safest way to search in files on an external hard drive

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/31/21 4:55 PM, Michael Singer wrote: Dear Qubes community, I am looking for a really secure way to use Qubes for searching not only a hard drive for file names, but for text that is in files. The goal is to avoid an exploit in the searched files leading to a takeover of the hard drive

Re: [qubes-users] How to use qvm-open-in-vm?

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/31/21 5:12 AM, Sven Semmler wrote: On 5/30/21 12:37 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: this opens a dialog asking me to select a target domain check your /etc/qubes-rpc/policy/qubes.OpenURL If you want your example to work add this line before all others: $anyvm browser allow Curious: Does the

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

2021-06-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/26/21 11:20 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 OpenOffice/LibreOffice for years

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] qubes-dom0-update (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6581)

2021-05-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/26/21 5:23 PM, unman wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:22:39PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: Hi! I know that the issue is marked fixed already, but I wonder if there should have been some more popular notice for this surprising change in the update mechanism. Today I saw there (before

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] Dom0 update error (Converting database from bdb to sqlite backend)

2021-05-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/26/21 4:40 PM, unman wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 5/14/21 3:22 PM, unman wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 05:30:30AM -0700, load...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+3 awokd wrote: load...@gmail.com: On Monday, May

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

2021-05-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 5/26/21 4:24 PM, Sven Semmler wrote: On 5/26/21 8:53 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 5/13/21 2:36 PM, 'taran1s' via qubes-users wrote: due to my work assignment, I will need to use MS Office 365 and I would like to keep using my Qubes laptop. IMHO running Office 365 from Qubes OS makes very

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