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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Then I noticed that I still had the Vidalia app, so I deleted that and all data files and directories I could find.<br><br>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<br><br>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.<br><br>But after the final re-install, Tor managed to bootstrap itself and now seems to be working.<br><br>I post this in case it provides any information to the Tor project team.<br><br>Michael<br><br><b><i>bao song <michaelwprx@yahoo.com.au></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > Yeah. We assume you have some way around your<br>> firewall (e.g. open proxies,<br>> friends, etc) but it's inconvenient and you don't<br>> want to use it all<br>> the time. But hopefully it's enough to get Tor<br>> itself.<br><br>The hard-working people at the firewall have managed<br>to block every open proxy I'd been able to find in
the<br>past. If it's listed on any site that says it's<br>listing 'open proxies,' it's blocked. Keeping Tor<br>running was my last way around the firewall. I managed<br>to download an early version of Tor when it was easier<br>to find open proxies, then used Tor to keep Tor<br>running.<br><br><br>> (We're looking into setting up a gmail autoresponder<br>> -- apparently gmail<br>> messages can be 20 megabytes. Handy.)<br>> <br>> > b) Tor cannot easily 'bootstrap,' since the<br>> > authoritative directory servers are all blocked.<br>> <br>> Is that also true for Tor 0.2.0.23-rc?<br><br>I'm running 0.2.0.23-rc on Darwin, and 0.2.0.22-rc on<br>XP. Both were able to create a circuit Wednesday, but<br>neither can create a circuit today.<br><br><br></blockquote><p> 
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