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 https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Network_Time_Synchronization#Block_Networking_until_sdwdate_Finishes?

**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

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


def restart_sdwdate(self, vm):
    if self.tor_status == 'running':
        if vm == self.name:
            if os.path.exists('/var/run/sdwdate/success'):
                Popen('sudo --non-interactive rm /var/run/sdwdate/success', shell=True)
            Popen('sudo --non-interactive systemctl --no-pager --no-block restart sdwdate', shell=True)
        else:
            command = 'qrexec-client-vm %s whonix.GatewayCommand+"restart" &' % vm
            call(command, shell=True)

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