Qubes VM Manager crashes on USB un-plug, "Houston, we have a problem"

[neilh...@gmail.com]

Qubes VM Manager crashes on USB un-plug, "Houston, we have a problem"

I plug in a USB, then attack it as a block device to a VM.

Then I remove the USB device without first unmounting from within the VM

And then USB no longer works at all, and if I try to detach the block device, the VM manager crashes and we get "Houston, we have a problem" error message.

Sure, I can go into the VM in the first place, unmount it, and then detach the block device.

But sometimes I forget to do that

Other than restarting the entire OS... what can I do.?

It's really annoying having to restart the OS whenever I screw up and accidentally remove it without unmounting first.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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Take a look here:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#what-if-i-removed-the-device-before-detaching-it-from-the-vm


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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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