Wifi networking NetVM crashes with poor UX

[bnvk]

Recently my wifi NetVM crashed and was failed to show any networks where it was previously showing things. I had to shutdown all my VMs and restart the NetVM to get it to discover and connect. My first attempt to shutdown the sys-net VM the following notification showed up:

Error starting VM 'sys-net': Failed to kill old QubesDB instance (PID 1958) Terminate it manually and retry. If that isn't QubesDB process remove the pidfile: /var/run/qubes/qubesdb.sys-net.pid

After a few attempts to "Kill" the VM it finally shutdown. That error message is quite technical and probably unhelpful to less technical users. However, if I understand the message correctly, it's offering instructions for CLI skilled users to further research the issue, correct?

• Hide that sort of message and tell user to Please attempt to kill this VM again
• Provide a link to more detailed explanation in local help Docs to the user

[marmarek]

Generally this error message is an workaround for another bug, related to #1470 . So the proper solution would be fixing that original bug...

[marmarek]

Generally this error message is an workaround for another bug, related to #1470 . So the proper solution would be fixing that original bug...

[marmarek]

Fixed in #1745

[marmarek]

Fixed in #1745