I can confirm this users problem. In a fresh whonix-ws template, i follow steps 1-4 with success. If i then run “sudo dpkg-reconfigure i2p” and then run “sudoedit /var/lib/i2p/i2p-config/clients.config.d/00-net.i2p.router.web.RouterConsoleRunner-clients.config”, i get the same error : “no such file or directory”. However, if i start from scratch and follow steps 1-4 in a newly cloned template, shut that template down, build and start an appvm based off of that same template, configure the tor browser by changing the various parameters in “about:config” and then close tor browser, i can run the “dpkg-reconfigure” and “sudoedit /var/lib…” commands IN the appvm successfully. And, only once. If i close the sudoeditor and try to edit that file again, i get the same error “no such file or directory”. If i run those two commands in the template first, i get the same error, and trying to then re-run them in the appvm fails.
TLDR key problems:
- command “sudoedit /var/lib…config” only works for a moment in the appvm when ran at a certain time
- this would only work for standalonevms because appvms do not persist changes to the root directory
- there is no “.i2p” in the home directory to try to edit as an alternative