[tor-bugs] #4716 [Tor bundles/installation]: vidalia-0.2.15-1~oneiric tries to start a per-user Tor with system-wide settings

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#4716: vidalia-0.2.15-1~oneiric tries to start a per-user Tor with system-wide
settings
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 Reporter:  tigerjack89               |          Owner:  dererk       
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  assigned     
 Priority:  blocker                   |      Milestone:               
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.34
 Keywords:  Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit       |         Parent:               
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:               
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Comment(by dererk):

 I meant that you have indeed started Tor daemon in advance.

 The Tor software is capable of running under different configurations or
 profiles to provide different usages.
 Vidalia is configured by default to use Tor's system-wide sessions, that
 is, you have a Tor service/daemon running on your machine in advance on
 starting Vidalia, so the last one can talk to it nice and easily without
 any configuration at all.

 Simplest way to do this, by far, is performing this actions:

 1. Check whether Tor is running on a system-wide basis -> /etc/init.d/tor
 status
 2. If it's not, but a list of the processes running shows one, kill it
 3. Proceed to start tor's daemon -> /etc/init.d/tor start
 4. Then, with your regular X user (NOT ROOT USER!), start Vidalia.

 If this fails at some point, please copy&paste everything that its output
 on logs (/var/log/tor/log and vidalia's log)

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