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Re: More info on my own tor problems - Fixed? NOT



Praedor Atrebates wrote:
Tor 0.2.1.7 just died on me with a message about a dns failure and now I cannot restart it. No error messages (in Tork). Firing up vidalia...I get this AGAIN:

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Dec 05 12:27:41.857 [Warning] Error setting configured groups: Operation not permitted Dec 05 12:27:41.859 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Problem with User value. See logs for details.
Dec 05 12:27:41.860 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.


Back to 0.2.0.31 or so.  Tor-0.2.1.7-alpha IS broken.

praedor


I don't run Tor-0.2.1.7-alpha but this fix from Tor-0.2.0.32 may work for you.

I ran into this error with 0.2.0.32 and found it was caused by the init script for Tor doing an 'su' to the $toruser and then passing the user and group options when starting Tor. I removed the user and group options when Tor is started and it now works fine. It seems the $toruser does not have sufficient permissions to change the programs group.

	Removing the 'su' call would also likely work but I have not tried it.

Chuck Filson