Re: Assertation -> tor crashes

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:45:16PM +0200, Marianne Spiller wrote:
> via pkgsrc, I installed tor-0.1.1.23 and privoxy-3.0.3_(stable).
> I did a tor server setup; it works for minutes - web access, instant 
> messaging and so on. Then it crashes without any comment. I understood: 
> it ran as a daemon, so I put in into foreground and get this message:
> 
> assertion "tv->tv_usec >= 0" failed: file "event.c", line 665, function 
> "timeout_next"
> [1]   Abort trap              ${command} --Use...
> 
> It's a NetBSD-3.0_sgimips box, running on a SGI Indy, 256MB, 200MHz r4600.

What version of libevent do you have installed?

When Tor starts, does libevent print out a log message indicating which
libevent method it's using? If so, which method is it using? For example,

Sep 06 09:14:11.797 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method epoll. Good.

--Roger