I’ve seen this several times. You select “shutdown” for a qube, watch it shut down, then immediately you get a notification that the qube is starting again.
It seems to be when qrexec has something queued up
For example something was wrong with sys-gui-vnc, and typing:
qvm-run --pass-io sys-gui-vnc ls
just hangs (because i forgot the --no-gui
parameter). In a attempt to fix it, I tried selecting the shutdown option from “qubes domains” gui widget and shut sys-gui-vnc down. it started right back up. I tried shutting it down, and it came back up 6 times in a row. I’m assuming that trying it a 7th or 8th time wont help anything, and that i’ll need to shut down the whole system (I.E. dom0)
My guess is that the qvm-run --pass-io sys-gui-vnc ls command didn’t work the previous time, then it realizes that the qube is stopped, so it starts the qube as if i had just issued the command. Then after sys-gui-vnc is started, it tries it again and the same problem of it not responding to qrexec is happening,
Anyone have any ideas if that’s what’s actually going on?