Good way of checking connectivity… but isn’t this kind of direct update frowned upon? I would answer “no” to the subsequent prompt.
At this point I can’t say. In frustration with having gone through the whole exercise of reinstalling just to get the same crappy and inexplicable result (I didn’t start the template and trigger the update notification the second time around…sys-whonix did)…I simply deleted the damn thing. There is no whonix on my laptop any more, and (since my motivation for using it was to get dom0 to update) I now have debian-11 based network qubes instead of debian-12, which appear to be broken for dom0 updates.
NONE of this happened on my desktop computer, by the way. whonix-gw never even claimed to need an update.
Try in sys-whonix terminal:
upgrade-nonroot
You maybe able to upgrade the template the same way.
My templates in general are heavily modified and I do have additional security hardware including a GPS (clock).
If you feel like having the same approach as I have:
sys-net (gufw deny-deny and open-snitch deny all)
same for sys-firewall.
Over the years I had major problems with Whonix and I will never use factory stock again. If you like time shifts make a Kaisen OS template (it does tie you in with Firefox but it does time-shifts much better)
You seem to have missed the part where I said I had deleted whonix from my system. I’m not going to deal with it any more.
However…I am glad you responded as it might help others in the future.