Just installed Whonix-Xfce-17.2.0.7.ova for VirtualBox and started the gateway & workstation and changed the locale to de_DE. It seems there is no way to start and or update the Tor Browser. Here is the debug output:
$ bash -x torbrowser
+ echo 'DEBUG START:'
DEBUG START:
+ echo ls -la /home/user
ls -la /home/user
+ ls -la /home/user
insgesamt 204
drwxr-x--- 11 user user 4096 26. Aug 18:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 26. Aug 17:36 ..
-rw-r----- 1 user user 220 26. Aug 17:36 .bash_logout
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 14 26. Aug 17:36 .bashrc -> .bashrc.whonix
-rw-r----- 1 user user 3891 26. Aug 17:36 .bashrc.whonix
-rw-r----- 1 user user 3526 26. Aug 17:36 .bashrc.whonix-orig
drwxr-xr-x 7 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:40 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 9 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:45 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:36 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 29. Jul 02:31 Downloads
drwx------ 3 user user 4096 29. Jul 02:32 .gnupg
-rw------- 1 user user 71 26. Aug 17:42 .histfile
-rw------- 1 user user 0 26. Aug 17:36 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 4 user user 4096 29. Jul 02:28 .local
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 29. Jul 02:31 Pictures
-rw-r----- 1 user user 807 26. Aug 17:36 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 26. Aug 17:36 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drw-rw-r-- 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:38 .tb
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-clipboard-tty7-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-clipboard-tty7-service.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-display-svga-x11-tty7-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-display-svga-x11-tty7-service.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-draganddrop-tty7-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-draganddrop-tty7-service.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-hostversion-tty7-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-seamless-tty7-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-seamless-tty7-service.pid
-rw-r----- 1 user user 5 26. Aug 18:00 .vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty7-control.pid
-rw------- 1 user user 49 26. Aug 18:00 .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 29. Jul 02:28 .xchat2
-rw------- 1 user user 25025 26. Aug 18:18 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 user user 13390 26. Aug 17:50 .xsession-errors.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 50919 26. Aug 17:36 .zcompdump
-rw-r----- 1 user user 0 26. Aug 17:36 .zshrc
+ echo ls -la /home/user/.cache
ls -la /home/user/.cache
+ ls -la /home/user/.cache
insgesamt 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:40 .
drwxr-x--- 11 user user 4096 26. Aug 18:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:36 fontconfig
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:36 gstreamer-1.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:40 mesa_shader_cache
drwx------ 2 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:36 sessions
drw-rw-r-- 4 user user 4096 26. Aug 17:38 tb
+ echo ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb
ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb
+ ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/temp' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/files' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/.' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/..' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
insgesamt 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? files
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? temp
+ true
+ echo ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/temp
ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/temp
+ ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/temp
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/temp' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
+ true
+ echo ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/files
ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/files
+ ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/files
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/files' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
+ true
+ echo ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file
ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file
+ ls -la /home/user/.cache/tb/tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file
ls: Zugriff auf '/home/user/.cache/tb/tbb_version_last_downloaded_save_file' nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
+ true
+ echo 'DEBUG END'
DEBUG END
It seems not to be an issue with file permissions as you can see from the debug output. It won’t fix the error, when running sudo chown --recursive "user":"user" "/home/user".
Any idea what the issue could be? Maybe a broken ova image or so?