Sys-whonix sdwdate cannot finish its job - Tor's Control Port could not be reached!

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tor_circuit_established_check_exit_code: 124
__ ### END: ### Exiting with exit_code '1' indicating 'wait, show error icon and retry.'.
2025-05-07 08:02:40 - sdwdate - INFO - PREPARATION RESULT: onion-time-pre-script detected a known permanent (until the user fixes it) error status. Consider running systemcheck for more information.
2025-05-07 08:02:40 - sdwdate - INFO -
2025-05-07 08:03:09 - sdwdate - INFO - PREPARATION: running onion-time-pre-script...
2025-05-07 08:03:09 - sdwdate - INFO -
__ ### START: ### /usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script
__ Status: Subsequent run after boot.
__ Static Time Sanity Check: Within minimum time 'Tue Nov  5 00:00:00 UTC 2024' and expiration timestamp 'Tue May 17 10:00:00 UTC 2033', ok.
__ Tor reports: NOTICE BOOTSTRAP PROGRESS=100 TAG=done SUMMARY="Done"
__ Tor circuit: established
__ Tor Consensus Time Sanity Check: The clock might be too fast. Clock is faster than consensus/valid-until 2025-05-07 07:00:00. extra guess: Tor consensus might be outdated and download might still be in progress since this is the first run after boot.
__ anondate_use: Running 'anondate-set' (by creating file '/run/sdwdate/request_anondate-set')...
__ ### END: ### Exiting with exit_code '2' indicating 'wait, show busy icon and retry.'.
2025-05-07 08:03:09 - sdwdate - INFO - PREPARATION RESULT: onion-time-pre-script recommended to wait. Consider running systemcheck for more information.
2025-05-07 08:03:09 - sdwdate - INFO -
2025-05-07 08:03:20 - sdwdate - INFO - PREPARATION: running onion-time-pre-script...
2025-05-07 08:03:20 - sdwdate - INFO -
__ ### START: ### /usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script
__ Status: Subsequent run after boot.
__ Static Time Sanity Check: Within minimum time 'Tue Nov  5 00:00:00 UTC 2024' and expiration timestamp 'Tue May 17 10:00:00 UTC 2033', ok.
__ Tor Bootstrap Result:
check_bootstrap_helper_script: /usr/bin/tor-circuit-established-check
tor_bootstrap_timeout_type:
tor_circuit_established_check_exit_code: 124
__ ### END: ### Exiting with exit_code '1' indicating 'wait, show error icon and retry.'.
2025-05-07 08:03:20 - sdwdate - INFO - PREPARATION RESULT: onion-time-pre-script detected a known permanent (until the user fixes it) error status. Consider running systemcheck for more information.
2025-05-07 08:03:20 - sdwdate - INFO -

I don’t know what happened, what causes this. I am on my regular wifi network, and this morning the sdwdate on sys-whonix stopped being able to do its “thing” ( I don’t know what it’s called, it connects to 3 onion addresses and does a time sync, I guess? So, it cannot do that anymore).

Sys-whonix constantly uses high CPU and my tor qubes cannot use the tor network (the tor browser fails to connect, or my processes which make use of tor circuits fail to connect).

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Here’s the stdout when I do systemcheck on sys-whonix terminal:

[gateway user ~]% systemcheck                                                                 
[INFO] [systemcheck] sys-whonix | Whonix-Gateway | whonix-gateway-17 TemplateBased ProxyVM | Wed May  7 08:10:07 AM UTC 2025
[INFO] [systemcheck] Tor Connection Result:
Tor's Control Port could not be reached. Attempt 1 of 5. Could be temporary due to a Tor restart. Trying again...
[INFO] [systemcheck] Tor Connection Result:
Tor's Control Port could not be reached. Attempt 2 of 5. Could be temporary due to a Tor restart. Trying again...
[INFO] [systemcheck] Tor Connection Result:
Tor's Control Port could not be reached. Attempt 3 of 5. Could be temporary due to a Tor restart. Trying again...
[INFO] [systemcheck] Tor Connection Result:
Tor's Control Port could not be reached. Attempt 4 of 5. Could be temporary due to a Tor restart. Trying again...
[ERROR] [systemcheck] Tor Connection Result:
Tor's Control Port could not be reached!

Please report this Whonix bug!

(Technical information:)
(tor_circuit_established_check_exit_code: 124)
(tor_bootstrap_timeout_type: sigterm)
(tor_bootstrap_status: )
(check_socks_port_open_test: 22)
(Tor Circuit: not established)
zsh: exit 1     systemcheck
[gateway user ~]% 
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systemcheck --verbose
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tor-circuit-established-check

Expected output:

(connected)

1

or

(not connected)

0


sudo ifconfig
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