Re: [tor-dev] tor#16518: Read-Only Filesystem Error opening tor lockfile in 0.2.6.9 but not 0.2.5.12

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2015, aexlfowley@xxxxxx wrote:

> After upgrading from 0.2.5.12 (git-3731dd5c3071dcba) to 0.2.6.9
> (git-145b2587d1269af4) an error occured.
> I'm on Debian Jessie (stable) on an AMD Athlon 64 X2. Tor won't start
> and these are the last lines in log:
> [warn] Couldn't open "/media/cRAID/Tor/lock" for locking: Read-only file
> system

> teor thinks that I "could be experiencing an issue with the tor sandbox
> and not getting the right paths
> or, tor is running with insufficient permissions"

I'd assume that's the protection settings enabled in Tor's service file.

See /lib/systemd/system/tor.service and the systemd.exec(5) manpage.
You can override these by making your own
/etc/systemd/system/tor.service file.

Cheers,
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