Qubes won't boot after audio qube creation

[pygmalion]

I was trying to get qubes to work with bluetooth headphones: using the following guides

Please Help! How do I use my bluetooth headphones with sys-net in other qubes?

You need to either set up an audio qube, pass your bluetooth adapter there, and connect your headphones, or pass your bluetooth adapter into the qube that you want to listen to. It has salt config version, check the end of the guide!

Audio qube

An audio qube acts as a secure handler for potentially malicious audio devices, preventing them from coming into contact with dom0 (which could otherwise be fatal to the security of the whole system). It thereby mitigates some of the security risks of using USB devices and Bluetooth devices. Nonetheless, we strongly recommend carefully reading the security warning on USB input devices devices before proceeding. With an audio qube, many kinds of devices can be used (that previously were eit…

I was successfully able to set up the audio qube but audio stopped working, so I passed the 00:00.5 AMD Audio Coprocessor to the sys-audio qube and then the system crashed, and it won’t boot now, it shows the qubes logo and the progress bar, once the progress bar is complete it shows a black screen.

I don’t care about bluetooth working I just want to get qubes to the state it was before without having to reinstall/reconfigure the system.

[Gandalfen]

Hello, can you try disabling autostart for VMs temporarily and see if it Qubes OS boot ,since sys-audio wouldn’t auto start this way and steal the passed device , you can remove assigned PCI device once you get it to start:slightly_smiling_face:

See the attached guide :

Autostart troubleshooting