whonixcheck fail: tor.pid does not exist after upgrade from Whonix 11 to Whonix 12

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I just updated my Whonix-Gateway (Whonix 11). It had only been a week or less, but it was a big update that took a while.

Anyway, now I am not getting a tor connection.

[ERROR][whonixcheck] Tor Pid Check Result:
Tor not running. (tor_pid_message: Pid file /var/run/tor/tor.pid does not exist.)

You have to fix this error, before you can use Tor.

It’s true that the file doesn’t exist. The only thing in that directory is “control”

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What platform/virtualizer?

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virtualbox

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What’s the output of

sudo service tor status

?

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tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
Loaded: (loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sat 2015-12-19 17:04:36 UTC; 8min ago
Process: 4331 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 4331 (code= exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGROUP: /system.slice/tor.service

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oh and below that:

Dec 19 17:04:36 host systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).

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Sorry, I meant the output of…

sudo service tor@default status

Also see /var/run/tor/log for any errors.

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There is no /var/run/tor/log

the only file in there is “control”

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Check…

sudo ifconfig

See if it shows both interfaces.

Did you make any changes to /etc/network/interfaces some time ago such
as for multiple Whonix-Workstations?

(VirtualBox is now also using
/etc/network/interfaces.d/30_non-qubes-whonix.)

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eth0 and eth1 are both there.
eth1 doesn’t have any ip4 info though, it only has an inet6 addresss.
Though i see in the 30_non-qubes-whonix configuration it has an ip of 10.152.152.10 set for eth1. This seems to not be getting used/applied.

I have not changed /etc/network/interfaces for anything. It just has 2 lines for the loopback.

Do you want a screenshot of ifconfig?

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Make sure /etc/network/interfaces looks like this.

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

(The comments starting with # are actually not important. You can skip
them if you wish.)

Then make sure /etc/network/interfaces.d/30_non-qubes-whonix looks
like this:
whonix-gw-network-conf/30_non-qubes-whonix at master · Whonix/whonix-gw-network-conf · GitHub

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ooo, it does not, I will change it now.

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Everything seems to be working now.
/etc/network/interfaces somehow was reset to a default
I changed it to:

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

restarted a couple times and have a tor connection.

Thanks!

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Thanks!

Just now documented:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Non-Qubes-Whonix_Known_bugs#No_Network_after_Upgrade_to_Whonix_12

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this error i have received it with dist-upgrade whonix 14 (gw & ws) vbox

sudo service tor@default restart

will give

Job for tor@default failed because the control process existed with error code. See “systemctl status tor@default.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

this is critical error because it will damage the whole connection of whonix after first upgrade.

Note: nothing will fix that except if you entirely restart the whonix system