Hi Jonathan, Thank you for offering your support. Yes, you are absolutely right.The exact problem which I was facing was that, I wasn't able to find the "Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog file. I followed the instructions as told by you and I'm mentioning their results as well below. 1. I executed the command:
$ sudo systemctl status tor
I got the following output:
[image: tor status.jpg]
2. I checked whether there was an issue related to permissions for the command:
$ cat /var/log/syslog
I figured out that there wasn't any error running that command (although I'm not attaching the output of that command).
I am still not getting that "Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog, which is the problem I'm facing specifically.
It would be of great help if you can think of any other possible issue because of which I am facing this problem.
Thanks, Yash Kumar
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- Re: tor enters uninterruptible sleep forever when using transparent proxy (Zack Weinberg)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 20:25:33 -0400 From: Zack Weinberg zackw@cmu.edu To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] tor enters uninterruptible sleep forever when using transparent proxy Message-ID: <CAKCAbMgwDwAsKLf3egHAprr=Up==jmpoEd= a_Y1iP11WXJRPVg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Nicolás Dato nicolas.dato@gmail.com wrote:
tor enters uninterruptible sleep forever when using transparent proxy
For future references, the issue was the kernel version 4.4.118, upgraded and the problem was gone.
A bit of Unix sysadmin lore that isn't as widely advertised as it once was (because, thankfully, it comes up far less often than it used to): there are only three reasons why a process would remain in an uninterruptible sleep for more than a few milliseconds: an abnormally slow storage peripheral (e.g. a tape drive being rewound, or a hard drive that's about to fail), a network file server that isn't responding to messages, or a kernel bug.
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:48:10 +0530 From: Yash Kumar yashkr.99@gmail.com To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Setting up tor relay Message-ID: <CAGagdeCFKM=pw5+E5+YFn5Y9Fj3yOvq5N5R0= C7N2kvBKLDWCQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear all, I want to setup my machine as a tor relay. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Intel i5 processor with 4 GB of memory. I followed the instructions given on this link https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide, but was getting some issue. In one of the later steps, it says "Verify that your relay works". This is done by checking my logfile(syslog) contains the following text:
"Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor."
I checked the syslog by the command:
$ cat /var/log/syslog
To bring it to your knowledge, I have followed all the previous steps mentioned on that link https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide, and was successfully able to execute all the commands. I would request you to please help me out in setting up my machine as a relay to make tor network faster and more usable.
Thank you, Yash Kumar
