Recently whonix is no longer able to sync its time and thus unable to connect to the tor network. When running:
$ whonixcheck --verbose
on the gateway I get the following:
I am unable to link to the screenshots (I have also posted this question on the tor stackexchange):
Rrunning arm on the gateway shows that it is not connected to the tor network:
Looking at the logs suggested by whonixcheck:
tail -f /var/log/sdwdate.log
it can be seen that there is no connection to the network:
The output of timesync on the gateway is:
Checking the logs of timesync
tail -f -n 20 /var/log/sdwdate.log
gives:
I’m also unable to set the hwclock. Running:
date +%T -s “01:01:30”
changes the time locally, but hwclock returns the same time entry as before setting it with date. Also, the time I set is reset on each reboot (both on the gateway and workstation)(I’m running whonix in VirtualBox on a Win7 host machine).
Another thing worth mentioning is that a few days ago I made a dual
boot setup (debian/win7) and booted in debian. I also disabled the UEFI
boot option in BIOS in order to be able to boot from a USB stick and
install debian.
Why isn’t whonix able to sync its time?
