Workstation: tor circuit not established

Running virtualbox 6.1
Gateway: fully updated and running, (stable repo) whonixcheck all green

Workstation:
whonixcheck gives up with:

  • Tor circuit: not established
  • Timesync status: not done
  • sdwdate reports: Prerequisite check not done yet

sdwdate log:
INFO clock is sane
WARNING Tor is not yet fully bootstrapped. Tor circuit: not established

any idea what i can try ?