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Re: [tor-talk] Can no longer run tor-browser




On 03/10/2017 03:45 AM, Georg Koppen wrote:
> Charles T. Bell:
>> I am using Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on my desktop and on a laptop.
>> I was using tor-browser_en-US on both when suddenly both
>> have stopped working for an unknown reason.  There is no
>> log to report and no indication of what the cause is.  I
>> have repeatedly tried to delete the directory with the
>> program in it and re-install the directory and run the program
>> from there.  After multiple attempts on both computers I
>> have to admit defeat and ask for some suggestions.
>> Thank you!
> 
> What output do you get if you open a terminal, change into the
> tor-browser_en-US directory and start Tor Browser with
> 
> ./start-tor-browser.desktop --debug
> 
> Georg
> 
> 
> 
> 
See the following output:

Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser --detach --debug'...

(firefox:3949): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:3949): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:3949): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:3949): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
1489138571200   addons.xpi-utils        ERROR   Unable to read anything
useful from the database
Mar 10 04:36:12.022 [notice] Tor 0.2.9.9 (git-56788a2489127072) running
on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2j and Zlib 1.2.8.
Mar 10 04:36:12.022 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Mar 10 04:36:12.022 [notice] Read configuration file
"/home/tommy/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults".
Mar 10 04:36:12.022 [notice] Read configuration file
"/home/tommy/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc".
Mar 10 04:36:12.025 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9151
Mar 10 04:36:12.025 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9151: Address
already in use. Is Tor already running?
Mar 10 04:36:12.025 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
bind one of the listener ports.
Mar 10 04:36:12.025 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

Then, "ps -A | egrep tor
showed that tor-browser was indeed already running and I killed it.
Then tor-browser started normally.
Thank you!

Charles Bell
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