First off, will outline that I am very much a newbie, but was able to get a relay up and running on a Ubuntu machine. It was running fine for maybe 12 months (MelbTorBox), with a few resets and software updates along the way.
Just doing my bit to help the network.
Anyway, after the Ubuntu upgrade, I had to re-install TOR and I believed I did it basically the same way.
Unfortunately, that appears not to be the case.
I've posted the error messages on the Ubuntu forum hoping to get assistance, but no joy:
I'm now coming to the experts to see if I can resurrect relay before I pull the pin on the idea.
I have BASIC Unix knowledge (I can type commands and that's about it). I think I might have a couple of copies installed in different places and I know I have the TOR browser installed (it works fine).
When I type 'nyx' it replies with:
Unable to connect to tor. Maybe it's running without a ControlPort?
So I type 'tor' and get
Sep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Tor 0.3.4.8 (git-5da0e95e4871a0a1) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.0g, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Sep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at
https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warningSep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Sep 19 21:34:24.823 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Socks listener on
127.0.0.1:9050Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Control listener on
127.0.0.1:9051Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening OR listener on
0.0.0.0:9001Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Directory listener on
0.0.0.0:9050Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [warn] Could not bind to
0.0.0.0:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running?
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks listener on
127.0.0.1:9050Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Control listener on
127.0.0.1:9051Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed OR listener on
0.0.0.0:9001Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
I 'think' my original torrc file may have somehow survived the Ubuntu upgrade, but I don't know how as I did a wipe and re-install of Ubuntu. But when I edited it, there were my contact details sitting there.
Very appreciative of any help!
Thanks
Ben.