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jiros

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From: Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran

Registered: 2013-10-23

Posts: 80

Tor could not run and freezed

Hi guys

First sorry for my bad English.

so
I installed tor via pacman -S tor and when i want to run it with <b>Tor</b> in terminal it shown this :

[sohrab@Arch ~]$ tor
Oct 25 18:03:38.601 [notice] Tor v0.2.6.10 (git-58c51dc6087b0936) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2d and Zlib 1.2.8.
Oct 25 18:03:38.601 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Oct 25 18:03:38.601 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Oct 25 18:03:38.606 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Oct 25 18:03:38.607 [warn] Error setting groups to gid 43: "Operation not permitted".
Oct 25 18:03:38.607 [warn] If you set the "User" option, you must start Tor as root.
Oct 25 18:03:38.607 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Problem with User value. See logs for details.
Oct 25 18:03:38.607 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
[sohrab@Arch ~]$

also with sudo privilage:

[sohrab@Arch ~]$ sudo tor
Oct 25 18:04:11.363 [notice] Tor v0.2.6.10 (git-58c51dc6087b0936) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2d and Zlib 1.2.8.
Oct 25 18:04:11.363 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Oct 25 18:04:11.363 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Oct 25 18:04:11.369 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050

it freez on line "Oct 25 18:04:11.369 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050" .

also in wiki wrote a guide for this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To … user_value
i changed the setting by the guide wiki mentoined and i run it with:

sudo systemctl start tor.service

and after that when i want to see tor status with command:

sudo systemctl status tor.service

it show :

[sohrab@Arch ~]$ sudo systemctl status tor -l
● tor.service - Anonymizing Overlay Network
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-10-25 18:23:23 IRST; 12s ago
 Main PID: 1199 (tor)
   CGroup: /system.slice/tor.service
           └─1199 /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc

Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch tor[1199]: Oct 25 18:23:23.357 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Tor v0.2.6.10 (git-58c51dc6087b0936) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2d and Zlib 1.2.8.
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".                                                                   
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050                                                                    
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/share/tor/geoip.                                                               
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/share/tor/geoip6.                                                              
Oct 25 18:23:23 Arch Tor[1199]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting                                                                                   
Oct 25 18:23:24 Arch Tor[1199]: Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server                                                             
Oct 25 18:23:34 Arch Tor[1199]: Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server                                                 
[sohrab@Arch ~]$

for more than 2 hours it freez in Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory

Any idea ?
have someone this problem ?
Please help me

Last edited by jiros (2015-10-25 15:00:25)

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mayhape

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Registered: 2015-10-09

Posts: 8

Re: Tor could not run and freezed

Do you still have the problem? There's a very similar issue to yours which was solved in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198520 .Have a look.