[qubes-users] Re: centos-8 fails to update: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_contextvars'

2021-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
The only thing out of the ordinary is I have an outdated is the DisposableVM Template. On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 3:08:06 PM UTC-5 Rob Townley wrote: > I certainly may not have run the qubesctl command correctly, but the gui > based update utility also fails. I had changed the d

[qubes-users] centos-8 fails to update: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_contextvars'

2021-10-04 Thread Rob Townley
I certainly may not have run the qubesctl command correctly, but the gui based update utility also fails. I had changed the default disposable template to fedora-34-qubes-core. Does it need to be a centos-8 template to work? [root@dom0 ~]# qubesctl --skip-dom0 --targets=centos-8 --show-output

Re: [qubes-users] Re: qrexec_timeout does not truly accept 360

2021-03-10 Thread Rob Townley
~]# On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 7:58:43 PM UTC-6 unman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 03:24:31PM -0600, Rob Townley wrote: > > I really need this qube to run for over an hour without the hypervisor > > killing it. Short of buying a much faster brand new machine, how

Re: [qubes-users] qrexec_timeout does not truly accept 3600

2021-03-10 Thread Rob Townley
awokd, will try qvm-features --verbose vmName qrexec 0 On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 3:43:50 AM UTC-6 awokd wrote: > Rob Townley: > > qvm-prefs vmName qrexec_timeout 3600 > > does not return an error message. When read, 3600 is returned. > > However, the VM is forcibly sto

[qubes-users] Re: qrexec_timeout does not truly accept 3600

2021-03-02 Thread Rob Townley
I really need this qube to run for over an hour without the hypervisor killing it. Short of buying a much faster brand new machine, how does one do that? On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:19 AM Rob Townley wrote: > qvm-prefs vmName qrexec_timeout 3600 > does not return an error message. Whe

[qubes-users] qrexec_timeout does not truly accept 3600

2021-02-28 Thread Rob Townley
qvm-prefs vmName qrexec_timeout 3600 does not return an error message. When read, 3600 is returned. However, the VM is forcibly stopped after 15 minutes. 1800 works 2700 works 3600 is not honored How can i get by this so this one VM can do finish its upgrade before forcibly rebooted? -- You

[qubes-users] kernel version mismatches

2021-02-02 Thread Rob Townley
Kernel version numbers seem off, way off in some VMs and templates. Mainly, that /boot/initramfs does not does not match uname -r. uname -r vs ls /boot/initramfs* vs cat /proc/version vs cat /etc/os-release OK dom0: 5.4.88-1.qubes, 5.4.88-1.qubes, 5.4.88-1.qubes, 4.0 BAD vm: 5.4.88-1.qubes,

[qubes-users] Re: Ok, I'm lost. Dracut timeout, emergency shell. Trying to install.

2020-08-14 Thread Rob Janes
that happened to me when i tried to install 4.0.3 in uefi mode. i don't think it says 4.0.3 works with uefi. anyways, installing with legacy works. however - it will break your system. probably. maybe you'll have better luck than i did. if you want to proceed, mount the EPS file system.

[qubes-users] qubes 4.0.3 install breaks my dual boot

2020-08-14 Thread Rob Janes
i installed qubes 4.0.3. uefi boot won't work. had to go legacy. qubes seems fine. but i couldn't get anything else booting. i had windows, ubuntu and fedora installed, uefi. the bios couldn't find my disk anymore for uefi, so i couldn't reconstruct the bcd. bootrec /fixboot said access

[qubes-users] Re: Donating to qubes

2019-07-01 Thread rob . cohen
On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:24:30 PM UTC-4, pieter lems wrote: > Hello again everyone. I'm sorry for posting for the second time today but i > have a question related to qubes donations. I know it's possible to donate by > using ur credit card and by using bitcoin. The question is as

[qubes-users] Re: XSA-273 - security impact on Qubes?

2018-09-15 Thread Rob Fisher
Thanks for your feedback, and especially thanks to the Qubes Security Team for getting this turned around so quickly and comprehensively. I particularly like the design decision to disable SMT (HT) in Xen irrespective of BIOS config. As BIOSs can be buggy on some HW, or simply not provide the

[qubes-users] XSA-273 - Impact on Qubes?

2018-08-25 Thread Rob Fisher
such patches to the qubes-kernel-vm or the Hypervisor. In the common case that microcode updates aren't possible via a BIOS update (HW vendor not made them available), and disabling hyper-threadding is not possible in the BIOS - what are the best options for a Qubes user right now? Thanks, Rob

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2017-09-18 Thread Rob Ward
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[qubes-users] Re: HCL - LENOVO X1 Carbon 20BSCTO1WW

2016-12-23 Thread Rob
y_hw_support=1 quiet rhgb to become: kernel=vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes-R3.2-x86_64 i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 quiet ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg rhgb however the whole filesystem is read-only and I cannot save the edit. Please could someone assist? Thanks, Rob. -- You received this mes

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Unable to install qubes... (Intel GTX 970 problem)

2016-12-20 Thread Rob
KS section of the Fedora install. Thanks for your reply, Rob. -- 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

[qubes-users] Qubes 3.2 install stuck at LUKS encryption (Text based install)

2016-12-15 Thread Rob
Hi all, Has anyone managed to work out how to get past the Text based LUKS installer bug? Thanks, Rob. -- 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] Re: Unable to install qubes... (Intel GTX 970 problem)

2016-12-15 Thread rob
eep trying! - I'll post again if I find workaround to the bug. Thanks, Rob. -- 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