Quite a few Whonix issues after recent update

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@qubist

Potentially due to different systemd unit files. These can lead to different race conditions.

/usr/lib/qubes/init/setup-rw.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qubes-mount-dirs.service

Related but different systemd unit files - unrelated ones - can lead to different race conditions.

@qubist

AFAIK, #2 is not available in Qubes 4.2.4, so I can’t test.

How to use rc.local-early in Qubes 4.2

/rw/config/rc.local-early is like /rw/config/rc.local with two important differences: It runs much earlier in the qube startup process It blocks until complete. This means that until the rc.local-early script exits, the qube is not considered to have started up, and subsequent systemd units and user gui apps will not run. Even though it is described in QubesOS’s live documentation, rc.local-early is not available in QubesOS’s current release at time of writing (that being version 4.2-- and it…

@qubist

#1 and #3 involve template modification, so they rather seem different use cases.

You can have a systemd units that only does work based on conditions. Either using systemd configuration and/or shell scripting. A condition could be “only inside App Qube”, “only inside App Qubes with name custom-vm-name” or “only inside Disposable”.