On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:20:18PM -0400, Michael Gorbach wrote:
Nope, I don?t have any special pluggable transports configured in my torrc, which is odd. What other processes would for be starting kicking off? All I have set in torrc is [...] PortForwarding
That's likely the one!
You might be one of the first users of this option. Please help us track down what's going on and file a trac ticket about it.
Do you set PortForwardingHelper? If not, I wonder what it's trying to run (and whether it finds it).
I do have tor compiled by gentoo?s portage package manager, with the for-hardening, bufferedevents, threads, and nat-pmp flags set.
You should be aware that bufferevents is experimental, and by experimental in this case I mean "known to not work sometimes and not really a good idea to use unless you're doing it in order to write patches for it". If you want to help your fellow Gentoo users, it sounds like you should file a ticket for gentoo to make it harder to accidentally turn on.
--Roger