DispVM starts and halts

[Todd Lasman]

Help me troubleshoot this:

When I launch a terminal from the menu using the fedora-28-dvm template, I get a message that disp407 is starting, disp407 has started, and disp407 has halted. No terminal comes up.

However, if I launch the browser (Firefox), it works fine.

If I run from dom0:
$ qvm-run --dispvm=fedora-28-dvm --service qubes.StartApp+gnome-terminal

I get exactly the same starting/started/halted sequence, and no error is reported.

[Ivan Mitev]

That's because gnome-terminal calls gnome-terminal-server and then exits
so the dispVM exits. See:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2581#issuecomment-272664009

[Todd Lasman]

Thank you! This makes sense. I've taken the easier approach and just started using xterm, as the link suggests.

[Ivan Mitev]

You may want to customize xterm to look like gnome-terminal (see the
links in a former ML post):

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/rhp_jCrIO28/AcCk_G-CAwAJ

Hope this helps !
ivan

[Todd Lasman]

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Even better - thanks again!