qvm-device and qubesd: protocol error

[andrewclausen]

Qubes OS version R4.0 with all updates.

Affected component(s) or functionality
qvm-device and qubesd

The Problem

I can list/attach/detach devices correctly with the GUI "Qubes Devices" tool, but not on the command line:

[clausen@dom0 ~]$ qvm-device list
Got empty response from qubesd. See journalctl in dom0 for details.
[clausen@dom0 ~]$ sudo journalctl --since "10 seconds ago" | grep qubesd
Sep 16 12:10:44 dom0 qubesd[1815]: protocol error for call b'admin.vm.device.list.Available'+b'' (b'dom0' → b'admin') with payload of 0 bytes

[andrewclausen]

I should add: I am sure this worked last week. I only noticed it stop working today. I can't guess what changed.

[marmarek]

[clausen@dom0 ~]$ qvm-device list

This couldn't possibly worked. You forgot device type, like qvm-device usb list.

[andrewclausen]

Shouldn't qvm-device give an appropriate error message?

[marmarek]

What you've done is requested list of devices of "list" type, which doesn't exist. Yes, the error message could be improved.
QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client#162

[andrewclausen]

Thanks a lot @marmarek !

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The package qubes-core-admin-client_4.1.10-1 has been pushed to the r4.1 testing repository for the Debian template.
To test this update, first enable the testing repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-*.list by uncommenting the line containing stretch-testing (or appropriate equivalent for your template version), then use the standard update command:

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