<div dir='auto'>I ran a exit relay before and no DNS timeouts don't cause Tor to not start properly and DNS timeouts seem to happen randomly even if the DNS server is working properly</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2021 6:52 AM, "Gary C. New via tor-relays" <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div>Are you able to start Tor manually without systemd? Anytime I encounter Tor start issues, I attempt to manually start Tor without the --quiet option to verify whether it's a torrc issue or something else. You might consider increasing the Tor logging level, too. Your existing Tor log shows a DNS timeout error. As I do not operate an exit relay, I don't know whether the DNS timeout error would cause Tor not to start.</div><div><br /></div><div>Respectfully,</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Gary</div><div>—<br />This Message Originated by the Sun.<br />iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge)<br />+ 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks<br />= iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)</div></div>
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On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 6:06:12 AM PST, yl <tor@yl.ms> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hello Roger,<br clear="none" />thanks for your helpful tip.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />On 12/14/21 12:14 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:<br clear="none" />> My first thought is that somehow during boot Tor fails to start. For<br clear="none" />> example, if at that point in the boot process there is no network,<br clear="none" />> maybe Tor aborts even before it gets to the point of writing anything<br clear="none" />> in its logs. We've definitely had bugs like that over the years.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />this was the one really helpful tip.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />> <br clear="none" />>> Any idea how to troubleshoot this and what to look for?<br clear="none" />> Tor will write to stdout before it switches over to writing to the<br clear="none" />> logs. So whatever init process is starting Tor can see that output. How<br clear="none" />> exactly to get at it... sounds like an adventure diving into how systemd<br clear="none" />> works.:)<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />And then the tip that it writes to stdout and might be some other output <br clear="none" />besides from unit "tor".<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I see the problem now, and I think it is like you guessed the network is <br clear="none" />not ready at that time.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Thanks, will check further.<div><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />yl<br clear="none" />_______________________________________________<br clear="none" />tor-relays mailing list<br clear="none" /><a shape="rect" href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br clear="none" /><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br clear="none" /></div></div></div>
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