Re: Installation problem (fingerprint, could not bind to port 9050)

[William Ward <wwward@xxxxxxxxx>]

Check to ensure Tor isn't already running, or simply reboot the  
computer to be doubly sure.

Bill


On Jun 26, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Hanno Kaiser wrote:

> Upon installing and a running the latest tor server (OSX 10.4), I  
> get the following message in notices.log:
>
> Jun 26 12:52:22.326 [notice] Tor 0.1.0.10 opening log file.
> Jun 26 12:52:22.326 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a  
> using method poll
> Jun 26 12:52:22.328 [warn] connection_create_listener(): Could not  
> bind to port 9050: Address already in use
> Jun 26 12:52:22.329 [err] options_act(): Failed to bind one of the  
> listener ports.
> Jun 26 12:52:22.329 [err] init_from_config(): Acting on config  
> options left us in a broken state. Dying.
>
> Tor also fails to create a fingerprint file in /Library/Tor/var/lib/ 
> tor.
>
> Note that I uncommented the following lines in the torrc file:
>
> ORPort 9001
> DirPort 9030
> SocksPort 9050
> SocksBindAddress 127.0.0.1
>
> Port forwarding is enabled for all of the above ports. The server  
> is visible to the world through dyndns.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hanno