Re: "permission denied" on wake-up

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:12:43PM +0100, David McKeegan wrote:
> Tor newbie here.
> 
> I set my relay (running on an Ubuntu VPS) to hibernate after 2GB and  
> everything seemed to be working fine until the time came for it to  
> wake up for the first time. My log showed this repeated error:
> 
> Jul 14 14:11:56.045 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
> Jul 14 14:11:56.045 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission  
> denied
> 
> A tor restart seemed to fix the problem, with logs showing

Right. The problem is that you can't configure hibernation plus pick a
low-numbered port currently.

See https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=918
for details -- in Tor 0.2.1.x, we've added a warning during boot that
you've chosen two incompatible config choices. For later versions of
Tor, we hope to have a smarter answer.

> Don't want to have to manually restart every day. Any idea what the  
> problem might be and how to fix it?

For now, the workaround is to either not configure hibernation, or to
pick a port above 1023.

Thanks,
--Roger