Qubes VM Manager Crashes - can't restart it without rebooting

[Simon-Davies]

Affected: Qubes OS version R3.2

From time to time the Qubes VM Manager crashes so it's no longer visible. Trying to restart it by clicking it in the menu does nothing. A reboot is required to restart it.

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[andrewdavidwong]

Does Qubes Manager start from the command line? In dom0, try:

$ qubes-manager &

[andrewdavidwong]

Does Qubes Manager start from the command line? In dom0, try:

$ qubes-manager &

[marmarek]

Also make sure the old one is really no longer running. Qubes Manger have mechanism to avoid running two of them simultaneously.

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[marmarek]

Also make sure the old one is really no longer running. Qubes Manger have mechanism to avoid running two of them simultaneously.

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[Simon-Davies]

It has just crashed again now. It crashed after the computer going into sleep.

I tried qubes-manager &

This image shows the output, Qubes Manager is not respawned: http://tinypic.com/r/14kdsew/9

[Simon-Davies]

It has just crashed again now. It crashed after the computer going into sleep.

I tried qubes-manager &

This image shows the output, Qubes Manager is not respawned: http://tinypic.com/r/14kdsew/9

[Simon-Davies]

pkill qubes-manager
qubes-manager &

This is the fix

[Simon-Davies]

pkill qubes-manager
qubes-manager &

This is the fix

[jpouellet]

What version of qubes-manager are you running?

rpm -q qubes-manager in dom0 to check

[jpouellet]

What version of qubes-manager are you running?

rpm -q qubes-manager in dom0 to check

[MarkRijckenberg]

Sorry, if I am hijacking this thread. I had the exact same issue and Simon-Davies' pkill workaround for this bug works for me as well.

I am also using Qubes OS 3.2. Output of rpm -q qubes-manager in dom0 is qubes-manager-3.2.12-1.fc23.x86_64

Running "sudo qubes-dom0-update" does not show any new updates since the last update.
Qubes is running GNU/Linux kernel version 4.4.67-13.pvops.qubes.x86_64 #1 SMP.

[MarkRijckenberg]

Sorry, if I am hijacking this thread. I had the exact same issue and Simon-Davies' pkill workaround for this bug works for me as well.

I am also using Qubes OS 3.2. Output of rpm -q qubes-manager in dom0 is qubes-manager-3.2.12-1.fc23.x86_64

Running "sudo qubes-dom0-update" does not show any new updates since the last update.
Qubes is running GNU/Linux kernel version 4.4.67-13.pvops.qubes.x86_64 #1 SMP.

[marmarta]

As it's hard to diagnose what exactly failed in this instance - unfortunately, with the R3.2 Qubes Manager design there was a bunch of things that could fail (and any undiscovered bugs too, of course), and also R4.0 should not have this problem, I'm going to close this one.

[marmarta]

As it's hard to diagnose what exactly failed in this instance - unfortunately, with the R3.2 Qubes Manager design there was a bunch of things that could fail (and any undiscovered bugs too, of course), and also R4.0 should not have this problem, I'm going to close this one.