Whonix-Gateway stuck at generating locales during dist-upgrade

KVM
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Hi all,

I recently installed Whonix-Gateway in CLI mode on Ubuntu 24.04 by following the instructions on the wiki and configured it to use Tor via an obfs4 bridge. I control it via Virtual Machine Manager. (The file I downloaded to install Whonix is Whonix-Xfce-17.0.3.0.Intel_AMD64.qcow2.libvirt.xz). Then I did a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade which got stuck at generating locales; I waited for an hour and there was no progress reported at all.

After a forced reset I did a sudo dpkg --configure -a and I’m back at square one: still stuck at configuring en-US.UTF-8…

What am I doing wrong? How do I get past this step? Thanks in advance.

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Could be a low RAM issue. See:

Newer version available btw. So if you just installed, best to start with the newer version.

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Thanks Patrick. Following your advice, I’m using the newer version and so far so good. Time to read anonymity tips on the wiki now :slight_smile: