Qubes-Community-Content/troubleshooting/gui-not-working.md

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GUI Troubleshooting

If you can start your VM, but can't launch any applications, then you need to fix the issues from the VM console, accessible from xen through:

qvm-start <VMname> # Make sure the VM is started
sudo xl console <VMname>

Tips

Disable auditd messages

To disable auditd messages, you need to edit your VM kernel parameters:

previous_kernel_parameters=$(qvm-prefs --get <VMname> kernelopts) # Get current kernel parameters
qvm-prefs --set <VMname> kernelopts "<previous_kernel_parameters> audit=0"

Then, restart your VM.

Once your troubleshooting is done, don't forget to remove this kernel parameters, it makes troubleshooting VMs not starting easier.