Stuck on ''Waiting for qubes-session...

[alexander...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I am trying to open a debian 9 gnome terminal with this command...

qvm-run -a debian-9 gnome-terminal

But I am getting stuck at...

waiting for qubes-session

I have tried rebooting without any success; this command worked just 10 minutes ago and now it's stuck at the same stage all the time.

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While I am making a thread anyways, the real issue I am trying to solve through the gnome terminal is updating my network manager from 1.0 12-2.fc23 to the 1.4.2 version (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/anonymizing-your-mac-address/).

I am on qubes 3.2 trying to update my Network Manager to a later version. Using this command ''sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade network-manager''. Will this work?

[alexander...@gmail.com]

I did a fresh-reinstallation of qubes since I probably messed something up trying to update my networkmanager through the deb-9 repository.

I've done all type of updates and upgrades I've found browsing around...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade network-manager

sudo apt-get install network-manager

None of these commands has updated my NetworkManager to 1.4.2 or later

How do I update my NetworkManager?

[alexander...@gmail.com]

I did another ''sudo apt-get install network-manager'' and while reading through what it says I can now see that I have the newest version (atleast for qubes 3.2)

''Network-manager is already the newest version (1.6.2-3)''

I think it's very strange that it says this since when I ''sudo NetworkManager -V'' in my dom0 terminal it says 1. 0. 12-2. fc23 which isn't 1.6.2

I guess this is solved

[awokd]

alexander...@gmail.com wrote on 10/16/18 6:19 PM:

It sounds like you were looking at the dom0's network manager. Dom0
never actually uses the network directly, everything goes through
sys-net by default. See
https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/playing-with-qubes-networking-for-fun.html
for a bit dated but good overview. The network manager version that
matters in the one inside sys-net, and that's the one you found was
version 1.6.2-3. The network icon in the tray comes straight from
sys-net, so when you make changes there you're actually changing sys-net.