troubleshooting

  • 6th October 2025

qubes-backup exit status 127 fix

If selecting a qube other than dom0 fails for backups and trying to choose a different qube causes error 127, try installing zenity in that qube.

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  • 20th June 2025

How to receive reverse shells and expose services to the Internet on QubesOS

QubesOS is amazing for security, and equally amazing at making CTFs 10x harder than they need to be. It’s the firewall’s fault.

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  • 10th June 2025

Fix for no audio in minimal templates in QubesOS

The reason why audio won’t work out of the box in minimal templates (debian-12-minimal, fedora-41-minimal) is that the package responsible for sending audio from VMs to your host (dom0 or sys-audio), pipewire-qubes, isn’t included in them by default.

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  • 6th June 2025

Fixing FreeRDP 3's BadAtom error on QubesOS

When you try to run FreeRDP 3, you will likely get the BadAtom error.

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  • 6th June 2025

OpenGL driver errors in QubesOS VMs: Why there’s no fix*

QubesOS is built on the principle of isolation, and GPUs aren’t designed to meet the strict isolation requirements QubesOS demands because they prioritize performance instead.

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