Hello,
I’ve just made a new TCP proxyVM using this guide ‘‘Redirecting…’’. I’m on Qubes 3.2 with whonix 14.
This is the terminal ‘‘whonixcheck’’ results:
user@host:~$ whonixcheck
[INFO] [whonixcheck] sys-whonix | Whonix-Gateway | whonix-gw-14 TemplateBased ProxyVM | Wed Oct 24 16:59:36 UTC 2018
[ERROR] [whonixcheck] Tor Config Check Result:
Your Tor config file contains at least one error.
(Tor exit code: 1)
Tor concise reports (below warns and errors must be fixed before you can use Tor):
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/.tor cannot be read: Permission denied
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn’t access private data directory “/var/lib/tor/.tor”
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [err] Reading config failed–see warnings above.
Tor full reports:
Oct 24 16:59:38.895 [notice] Tor 0.3.4.8 (git-5da0e95e4871a0a1) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.0f, Zlib 1.2.8, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.1.2.
Oct 24 16:59:38.895 [notice] Tor can’t help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at Tor Project | Download
Oct 24 16:59:38.895 [notice] Read configuration file “/etc/tor/torrc”.
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/.tor cannot be read: Permission denied
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn’t access private data directory “/var/lib/tor/.tor”
Oct 24 16:59:38.898 [err] Reading config failed–see warnings above.
Try to look at this report yourself by running.
dom0 → Start Menu → ServiceVM: sys-whonix → Terminal
sudo -u debian-tor tor --verify-config
To try to fix this, please open your Tor config file.
dom0 -> Start Menu -> ServiceVM: sys-whonix -> Torrc
or in Terminal: sudo nano /usr/local/etc/torrc.d/50_user.conf
Please restart Tor after fixing this error.
dom0 -> Start Menu -> ServiceVM: sys-whonix -> Restart Tor
or in Terminal: sudo service tor@default restart
Restart whonixcheck after fixing this error.
dom0 -> Start Menu -> ServiceVM: sys-whonix -> Whonix Check
or in Terminal: whonixcheck
If you know what you are doing, feel free to disable this check.
Create a file /etc/whonix.d/50_whonixcheck_user.conf and add:
whonixcheck_skip_functions+=" check_tor_config "