whonix-ws-14 apt-get autoremove broke the template

[qube...@tutanota.com]

hi, after the last update of the whonix-ws-14 template with recommended apt-get autoremove, the template got broken.
- Most of the apps disappeared
- torbrowser doesnt connect to net
- template itself cant be updated.

user@host:~$ sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/

Upon launching TorBrowser, the wellcome page is "File not found". Upon trying to connect to a web page, "Secure connection failed".

any ideas?

[awokd]

qube...@tutanota.com:

There's a lock on apt update. Let it sit for 15 minutes and try again.
If that doesn't help, roll back to a previous version of the template
from a backup or reinstall it. You might also try the Qubes-Whonix forum.

[sbor...@gmail.com]

Hi,

was bitten by this as well. The whonix repos must have been in a strange state yesterday (Sep 17), and a dist-upgrade removed too much stuff (with essentially
the symptoms you describe).

I bit the bullet and just reinstalled the whonix templates, followed by
apt update/dist-upgrade/autoremove and today everything behaved as expected.

It would be great though if it were possible to avoid these 'flaky' states of
the whonix repos ..

Best,

Stefan

[qubenix]

sbor...@gmail.com:

Happened to me from the `testers` repo yesterday too. Luckily I noticed
all the packages to be removed, declined the upgrade, and switched to
`stretch-proposed-updates` repo.

Don't forget you can always use `qvm-volume` to revert your template
changes (as long as you haven't restarted the vm since breaking it)
instead of reinstalling. See `qvm-volume --help` for details.

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[qube...@tutanota.com]

After the install, did you just use:

sudo apt update && apt dist-upgrade
# than
sudo apt autoremove

?


Sep 18, 2018, 3:21 PM by sbor...@gmail.com:

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