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Tor Browser Downloader on Whonix-16 WS fails for TB 13.0 #8602

Closed UndeadDevel closed 1 year ago

UndeadDevel commented 1 year ago

Qubes OS release

4.1.2 Whonix-16 (Qubes-whonix)

Brief summary

While dispVMs or anon-whonix have no problem downloading the latest TB update (13.0), the template (whonix-ws-16) TB Downloader app fails after saying "Yes" to "Download now?", right after trying to download the gpg signature, with the following error:

ERROR: Failed to download: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/13.0/tor-browser-linux64-13.0_ALL.tar.xz.asc 
Possible reasons:

- Internet connectivity issue. 
- The download server is down. 
- File size exceeded (endless data attack triggered). 
- Tor Browser Downloader (by Whonix developers) has been broken due to upstream changes. 
Recommendations:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Browser#download_failure 
(Debugging information: curl_status_message: [22] - [HTTP page not retrieved. The requested url was not found or returned another error with the HTTP error code being 400 or above. This return code only appears if -f, --fail is used.])

This error comes immediately, so it's not a connectivity issue IMO, as everything before then (including fetching the new version number etc.) works fine and fast. Maybe with the new major version of TB the URL pattern has changed?

Steps to reproduce

use tor browser downloader app to update TB

Expected behavior

updates TB

Actual behavior

fails to update TB...won't even fetch the signature

resulin commented 1 year ago

This is a Whonix issue, not a Qubes issue: http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/t/tor-browser-integration/11912/64

It's already fixed but I don't know if it reached all repositories yet.

@andrewdavidwong

adrelanos commented 1 year ago

Confirmed. It will be handled upstream.

adrelanos commented 1 year ago

This was resolved by upstream package upgrades as per linked forum discussion.

https://forums.whonix.org/t/tb-updater-is-broken-again-after-13-0-update-is-available/17285

In case there's still issues, not sure we want to keep this ticket open or close.

UndeadDevel commented 1 year ago

Confirmed fixed for me, thanks.