Tor 0.2.0.23-rc problems resolved?

[bao song <michaelwprx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday, I wrote that my copy of Tor was suddenly unable to download relays or to complete a circuit. Scott sent me a new consensus document, but this didn't help. In fact, after putting it in, Vidalia began cycling, taking excessive memory and cpu cycles. I terminated it and restarted, but then Vidalia started demanding a password before it would start Tor.

I decided to re-install Vidalia Bundle 0.2.0.23-rc, but this didn't help. I backed up all the Tor data files, and deleted them, then did another re-install. Still no help.

The re-installs kept insisting that they were upgrades, even though I'd run the uninstaller script and had tried to delete all Tor and Vidalia files.

Then I noticed that I still had the Vidalia app, so I deleted that and all data files and directories I could find.

The last re-install still said it was an upgrade, but, after performing it, Tor downloaded 1400 relays and built a circuit, so the problem was a corrupt
 Vidalia.app

Apparently, re-install tries not to overwrite files, and the Tor uninstall package does not delete Vidalia.app, so it took me some time to narrow the problem to a corrupt vidalia.app running in the Darwin applications directory.

But after the final re-install, Tor managed to bootstrap itself and now seems to be working.

I post this in case it provides any information to the Tor project team.

Michael

bao song <michaelwprx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Yeah. We assume you have some way around your
> > firewall (e.g. open proxies,
> > friends, etc) but it's inconvenient and you don't
> > want to use it all
> > the time. But hopefully it's enough to get Tor
> > itself.
>
> The hard-working people at the firewall have managed
> to block every open proxy I'd been able to find in
>  the
> past. If it's listed on any site that says it's
> listing 'open proxies,' it's blocked. Keeping Tor
> running was my last way around the firewall. I managed
> to download an early version of Tor when it was easier
> to find open proxies, then used Tor to keep Tor
> running.
>
>
> > (We're looking into setting up a gmail autoresponder
> > -- apparently gmail
> > messages can be 20 megabytes. Handy.)
> > 
> > > b) Tor cannot easily 'bootstrap,' since the
> > > authoritative directory servers are all blocked.
> > 
> > Is that also true for Tor 0.2.0.23-rc?
>
> I'm running 0.2.0.23-rc on Darwin, and 0.2.0.22-rc on
> XP. Both were able to create a circuit Wednesday, but
> neither can create a circuit today.

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