Make sure you switched to EPEL's tor packages if you used torproject's RPM repository in the past. EPEL provides the latest tor version (currently 0.2.8.7 [2]), former torproject RPMs are no longer updated at all [1]. The migration to EPEL packages includes some manual steps, like filesystem permission fixing (EPEL uses another username for the tor system account). Deprecation trac ticket: [3] [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011070.html [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1b53e559ba https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1dc5947199 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19501