user@host:~$ whonixcheck
INFO] [whonixcheck] Tor Bootstrap Result: Connected to Tor.
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Whonix is produced independently of, with no guarantee from, The Tor Project. Whonix is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. https://www.whonix.org
[INFO] [whonixcheck] SocksPort Test: Testing Tor’s SocksPort…
[INFO] [whonixcheck] SocksPort Test Result: Connected to Tor. IP:
[INFO] [whonixcheck] TransPort Test: Testing Tor’s TransPort…
[INFO] [whonixcheck] TransPort Test Result: Connected to Tor. IP:
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Stream Isolation Test Result: Functional.
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Whonix News Download: Checking for Whonix news and updates…
[WARNING] [whonixcheck] Whonix News Result:
✘ Outdated: Installed whonix-workstation-packages-dependencies 1.9-1 is outdated!
You should update. You can automatically update using Whonix’s internal updater. Please update using:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
√ Up to date: Whonix Build Version 10.0.0.5.5
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Debian Package Update Check: Checking for software updates via apt-get…
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Debian Package Update Check Result: No updates found via apt-get.
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Whonix APT Repository: Enabled.
When the Whonix team releases WHEEZY updates,
they will be AUTOMATICALLY installed (when you run apt-get dist-upgrade)
along with updated packages from the Debian team. Please
read Placing Trust in Whonix ™ to understand the risk.
If you want to change this, use:
sudo whonix_repository
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Tor Browser Update Check: Checking version…
[INFO] [whonixcheck] Tor Browser Update Check Result: Up to date.
[WARNING] [whonixcheck] Whonix News Result:
✘ Outdated: Installed whonix-workstation-packages-dependencies 1.9-1 is outdated!
You should update. You can automatically update using Whonix's internal updater. Please update using:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
when i run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The same big Problem! In the past (9->10) it was possible to upgrade via sudo apt-get. Works with no Problems. Now, my Updater don´t work here too. So what i have to do exactly to upgrade and i read the Link you gave before. Thank you for your Helping Hands Patrick.
Other than installing a freshly downloaded images of course. Which is easier. For the gateway, I guess I personally would be too lazy and be inclined to just a get a fresh one even though that’s not the most safe option [not keeping Tor entry guards]. But then data migration is not non-trivial either. Take your pick.
You need to create a backup. As per Whonix ™ - Anonymous Operating System. Once you have files that you want transfer, pick some method listed under File Transfer - Whonix for the actual file transfer. Shared folder seems easiest to me.
“Failed to start LSB - Agent Damon for spice Guests”
on Gateway i get following ARM Warn
[ARM_WARN] The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue a
sighup to reload the torrc values by pressing x.
- configuration value is missing from the torrc: RunAsDaemon
The only two Errors i found! Does it give a Workaround for this Error? Other runs absolut perfectly!
Thank you in Advance for your helping Hands Patrick!
"Failed to start LSB - Agent Damon for spice Guests"
Unimportant. Unlesss you are using KVM (probably not) you can use:
[ARM_WARN] The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue a
sighup to reload the torrc values by pressing x.
- configuration value is missing from the torrc: RunAsDaemon
The short answer is: you can mostly ignore arm. It shows a lot bogus messages. Most are documented here:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Controller#Arm_FAQ
Dear Patrick. Thank you very much for the fast Answer. So i use VB. Can i do
sudo apt-get purge spice-vdagent
too?. I ask, before i am doing something wrong! Although thank you for the Arm Link. I will ignore this.
Unimportant. Unlesss you are using KVM (probably not) you can use:
sudo apt-get purge spice-vdagent
[quote][ARM_WARN] The torrc differs from what tor’s using. You can issue a
sighup to reload the torrc values by pressing x.
configuration value is missing from the torrc: RunAsDaemon[/quote]
The short answer is: you can mostly ignore arm. It shows a lot bogus messages. Most are documented here: Control and Monitor Tor
Best Regards and thank you very much for your Help! Great!
Would there be a difference / would it be bad if instead of a reboot at the end of the upgrade process I had shut the system down ? That’s for the workstation.
That’d help me to know, in order to troubleshoot on my end, but I may elaborate more on my problem in a new thread later.
Hi again. I just wanted to tell you about my upgrading from Whonix 9.4 to Whonix 11 (both VMs) and see if I didn’t mess anything up.
I think everything went fine, but when I run whonixcheck I have “Up to date: Whonix Build Version 9.4”.
9.4 was the version when I had installed Whonix from scratch the first time. I read somewhere in these forums that it doesn’t mean there is a problem, but I prefer to ask just to be sure.
Somewhere in the upgrade process (for both VMs), I was told that kdm better be stopped so it could be fully updated. So I aborted the upgrade process, I started over again from my clean 9.4 backup files, and what I did before anything else is to run:
sudo su
invoke-rc.d kdm stop
And then I followed the instructions from the start. The message about kdm didn’t show up.
Everything okay ?
After upgrading, the resolution of WorkStation was set back to what it was before I set it to 2640x1980 ( I have a 4K display ). In 9.4, I had used:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
kdesudo kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-virtualbox-monitor.conf
(and copied the right content in the text file).
I had also used “xrandr --newmode”, “xrandr --addmode”, “xrandr --output”. And on the host, I had also run “vboxmanage setextradata”.
So all had been done for the resolution to be set to 2640x1980, but upgrading to Whonix 11 set it back to what it was before.
So I decided to go for the VB guest additions. I read that they are installed by default in Whonix 11, but the resolution couldn’t be changed. So after the upgrade, I ran:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11
and then the resolution became resizable.
Now the sanity tests give 0 as an outcome. When I start or shut down both machines, I get only green “OK”. Everything seems to run fine, but I post this just to be sure I didn’t mess anything up
And by the way, thank you very much for what you do and for Whonix, I’m really enjoying it.
1) I think everything went fine, but when I run whonixcheck I have "Up to date: Whonix Build Version 9.4".
9.4 was the version when I had installed Whonix from scratch the first time. I read somewhere in these forums that it doesn't mean there is a problem, but I prefer to ask just to be sure.
2) Somewhere in the upgrade process (for both VMs), I was told that kdm better be stopped so it could be fully updated. So I aborted the upgrade process, I started over again from my clean 9.4 backup files, and what I did before anything else is to run:
sudo su
invoke-rc.d kdm stop
And then I followed the instructions from the start. The message about kdm didn't show up.
Everything okay ?
