Hello,
I just had a tor instance exit with these error messages:
[warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports. [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. For usage, try -h. [warn] Restart failed (config error?). Exiting.
Above that, the log contains an endless stream of these errors:
[warn] Permissions on directory /var/run/tor are too permissive. [warn] Before Tor can create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control", the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only by the user and group account that is running Tor. (On some Unix systems, anybody who can list a socket can connect to it, so Tor is being careful.)
When I checked, the /var/run/tor directory had the mode "rwxr-sr-x". After removing the permissions for "other", tor started without problems.
Did anyone else see this? I'm using Ubuntu packages from the deb.torproject.org repository.
Best regards, Alexander