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Re: [tor-bugs] #20890 [Applications/Tor Launcher]: Increase connection timeout to avoid "Could not connect to Tor control port" errors
#20890: Increase connection timeout to avoid "Could not connect to Tor control
port" errors
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Reporter: torrc591 | Owner: brade
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Launcher | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201805R, tbb-backport | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by TimeForGoToBed):
Thanks, guys. Glad you erred on the side of caution and made the new
timeout a full 5 minutes. As it turns out, I was premature in reporting
that I was no longer experiencing the "Could not connect" issue. While it
was no longer the case, as in older versions of Tor Browser, that it would
//never// succeed in connecting to the control port after the first post-
install run, I've found that if my netbook is running other applications,
the "Could not connect" returns.
While experiencing the issue today, I tried various things that were
unsuccessful in getting Tor Browser to successfully start up, including
plugging into AC power to go to full-performance mode, switching from Wi-
Fi to EtherNet, switching the priority of tor.exe and/or firefox.exe to
High in the Task Manager just after startup, and even quitting all the
other apps I was running. Only rebooting got Tor to work again. Intel,
in their infinite wisdom, elected to limit my Atom CPU to being able to
access 2 GB of RAM, so memory fragmentation and/or swapping may be
responsible for the system being too slow to start up Tor within 30
seconds unless a reboot is done.
In any case, hope this does get backported to the next stable release;
increasing the timeout seems like quite a safe change.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20890#comment:13>
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