sdwdate and sdwdate-gui development thread

Patrick · November 17, 2018, 5:03am

Left click does nothing for me in KDE.
Left click does nothing for me in XFCE.

Right click always works well for me in KDE.
Right click always works well for me in XFCE.

sdwdate-gui looks a lot better in Whonix XFCE!

(Days of KDE version are probably numbered so no KDE fixes required: User Poll - XFCE vs KDE - KDE Deprecation Considered!)

torjunkie · February 17, 2019, 1:45am

Using Qubes-Whonix, stable proposed updates repo.

I noted today that even when sdwdate-gui was telling me “the clock is fast” etc in logs, and the random time-sync stuff hadn’t completed, it was still possible to download updates via sys-whonix for TemplateVMs.

So, there must be some logic flaw, since all updates should have been blocked until sdwdate finished i.e. jumped a random number of seconds forward or backward first.

Never seen that before.

Patrick · February 18, 2019, 8:42am

Blocking networking until sdwdate finished isn’t a feature which is enabled by default (yet).

Did you apply instructions from Network Time Synchronization - Whonix?

torjunkie · February 22, 2019, 3:18pm

Sorry, my mistake.

No, I didn’t apply that change - had thought it was by default.

Patrick · April 8, 2019, 12:42pm

Some changes for log viewer, buster, file permissions.

github.com

Kicksecure/sdwdate-gui/blob/master/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sdwdate_gui/sdwdate_gui_qubes.py#L418-L426


      
          
          
    self.parse_sdwdate_status(self.name, status['icon'], status['message'])
          
          
def tor_status_changed(self):
              if not anon_connection_wizard_installed:
                  ## tor_status() unavailable.
                  return
          
          
    try:

Why is there if self.tor_status == 'running':? What stopping sdwdate has to do whether Tor is running or not? Bug?

Patrick · June 10, 2019, 5:47pm

troubadour · July 15, 2019, 8:25pm

An update to the list of onions used by sdwdate. On boot, it can take ages before sdwdate is ready in sys-whonix, with a whonixcheck popup in some case (Qubes).

I could see that sdwdate-gui is included in whonix-15 VirtualBox, but not in the Qubes flavor. Is it planned after way to find out the name of gateway from inside the VM - qubesdb-read /qubes-gateway-name · Issue #4117 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub is implemented ?

Patrick · July 16, 2019, 7:19pm

Qubes-Whonix sdwdate-gui: it is installed by default but needs to be enabled according to:
Enable sdwdate-gui

It’s not enabled by default due to lack of testing. (sdwdate-gui for Qubes. Testers wanted (developers welcome))
And due to no one around who could fix any python in sdwdate / sdwdate-gui bugs for the time being.

Now that you’re back, we can get back to it.

whonix-ws-15 (DVM Template) based currently throws dom0 qrexec prompt. Same for anon-whonix.

way to find out the name of gateway from inside the VM - qubesdb-read /qubes-gateway-name · Issue #4117 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub would be nice but is unrelated.

Could you add an exit (to terminate) button to sdwdate-gui please?

Patrick · July 16, 2019, 7:41pm

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix installed but Whonix policy files missing in folder qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix leading to sdwdate-gui issue

opened 07:41PM - 16 Jul 19 UTC

closed 05:05AM - 18 Jul 19 UTC

adrelanos

T: bug C: core C: Whonix P: default

**Qubes OS version** R4 **Affected component(s) or functionality** qubes-co…re-admin-addon-whonix **Brief summary** qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix installed but Whonix policy files missing in folder `qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix` **To Reproduce** Unclear. **Expected behavior** Policy files should be there. * whonix.GatewayCommand * whonix.NewStatus * whonix.SdwdateStatus https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix/tree/master/qubes-rpc-policy **Actual behavior** Policy files missing. **Solutions you've tried** sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix > Package qubes-core-admin-addon-whonix-4.0.2-1.fc25.noarch is already installed, skipping. **Relevant [documentation](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/) you've consulted** [enable sdwdate-gui in Qubes-Whonix](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Network_Time_Synchronization#Enable_sdwdate-gui)

Patrick · July 16, 2019, 7:55pm

Merged. (two re-added which worked with curl --head)

Patrick · July 17, 2019, 7:55pm

Maybe only an issue for me. Ignoring.

Hope that made sense?

troubadour · July 17, 2019, 8:50pm

When saying that sdwdate-gui is not installed in Qubes, I meant not enabled.
To completely enable it, we have to modify /usr/lib/sdwdate-gui/notify-shutdown too.

#!/bin/bash

## Copyright (C) 2018 - 2019 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP <adrelanos@riseup.net>
## See the file COPYING for copying conditions

NAME="$(/usr/bin/qubesdb-read /name)"

if [ ! -z "$NAME" ]; then
    /usr/bin/qrexec-client-vm sys-whonix whonix.NewStatus+$NAME" shutdown"
fi

In my version, the qrexec-client-vm command was commented, replaced with true, as in start-maybe.

I am working with a fresh installation, from scratch. The Whonix policies are in dom0.

It’s already in the code, commented. I believe there was an issue with the position of the Exit button in the menu. Will look into it.

Patrick · July 17, 2019, 8:56pm

Done in git master.

Patrick · August 7, 2019, 6:21am

https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate-gui/commit/bc4370caca3d041a15c749d5ba758bc6048e1d42

https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate-gui/commit/e2eb9f84233e7580cc2ceb13990b90689bc39382

https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate-gui/commit/d57c97978c77d74b92155bb19c360f723df42571

Patrick · August 7, 2019, 6:55am

Patrick · August 7, 2019, 7:27am

https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate-gui/commit/daf102c9bf1365e9a9d69139d2f6f688b15bef3b

Patrick · August 7, 2019, 7:38am

Posiiton of exit button is non-ideal but we really need that exit button. Better not having any exit button.

troubadour · August 8, 2019, 8:37pm

P

Put the exit button at he bottom of the menu.

Ideally, there should be a separator between the last vm and the exit button. Struggling with this.

Patrick · August 9, 2019, 8:24am

Merged, tested, and available from testers repository. The separation is category “perfection”. Working really, really good already. Much, much better to have an exit button.

Patrick · August 10, 2019, 12:39pm

We don’t need to trust qubesdb-read /name and can use an environment variable instead.

QREXEC_REMOTE_DOMAIN

I think I need to replace $1 with $QREXEC_REMOTE_DOMAIN in etc/qubes-rpc/whonix.NewStatus or something.

Probably does not work yet.