Problems with Tor and debian-11

Relatively novice Qubes user here. I am dealing with two problems that I presume are somehow related, but which have, in any case, both cropped up at the same time.

The first is that Tor is not working. I received the following error:

Tor is not running.

You have to fix this error, before you can use Tor.
Please restart after fixing this error.

dom0 → Start Menu → ServiceVM: sys-whonix → Restart Tor GUI
or in Terminal:
sudo service tor@default restart

The first option, Restart Tor GUI, just brings up the same error. In the terminal, I get the following:

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart tor@default.service
Failed to restart tor@default.service: Unit tor@default.service not found.

Any advice appreciated.

The Qubes Update service indicates that debian-11 should be available for an update, but it fails consistently.

I fear I haven’t done enough searching of the forum to find out how to help myself, but I do feel a bit underwater currently.

Which versions of Qubes and Whonix are you using?

You mention Debian 11, which was replaced by Debian 12 quite a while ago. This leads me to believe that you are using an old system.

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I am running Qubes OS 4.1, which is perhaps the problem. I missed the new version. I am going to start a back-up now, update, and then hopefully that will help resolve the issue.

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