[tor-bugs] #6741 [Vidalia]: Vidalia not-responding after minute of working

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#6741: Vidalia not-responding after minute of working
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 Reporter:  HavingError12                                                        |          Owner:  chiiph         
     Type:  defect                                                               |         Status:  new            
 Priority:  critical                                                             |      Milestone:                 
Component:  Vidalia                                                              |        Version:  Vidalia: 0.2.20
 Keywords:  Vidalia 0.2.15 0.2.19 0.2.20 Tor 0.2.2.35 0.2.2.37 0.2.2.38 Windows  |         Parent:                 
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 I'm having strange problems with Vidalia in Windows.
 Before the main problem there were errors while connecting to TOR like
 client only. When I pushed Start Tor Vidalia started Tor but displayed
 this process incorrectly. When TOR was already connected and
 check.torproject.org worked fine Vidalia still displayed yellow
 "connecting" onion instead of green one, it became green by the time, long
 after TOR had begun really working. Network map displayed node list, but
 not my circuits. Message log was also not fine. After displaying message
 "bootstapped 100%" there were messages like "we have 0/1800 descriptors",
 "we have 100/1800 descriptors" and so on. When I interrupted connecting by
 pushing "Stop Tor" Vidalia displayed message box

 "Vidalia was unable to register for some events. Many of Vidalia's
 features may be unavailable.

 Control socket is not connected."

 These strange things began some weeks ago and happened with Vidalia bundle
 version 0.2.2.35-0.2.15 and after update to 0.2.2.37-0.2.19.
 Main, much stranger problem begun when I tried running a non-exit TOR
 relay. I upgraded Vidalia bundle to version 0.2.2.38-0.2.20. At first it
 succeded and no problems happened but next time troubles begun. Vidalia
 started TOR and relay but in a minute or so Vidalia windows became
 completely white (blank) and not-responding, Vidalia's green onion in
 taskbar ignored right mouse clicks, while TOR itself continued working and
 check.torproject.org worked fine. It continued happening when I switched
 to client only. Then I tried installing older Vidalia bundle versions
 (0.2.2.35-0.2.15 and 0.2.2.37-0.2.19) all the same. Now I'm writing using
 TOR from other Windows machine and all works fine.
 I suspect attack though political regime in my country isn't supposed to
 be so oppressive as in China.

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