[tor-bugs] #9229 [Tor]: While bootstrapping, Tor clients stall for 60s when obfsproxy bridges are used.

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#9229: While bootstrapping, Tor clients stall for 60s when obfsproxy bridges are
used.
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 Reporter:  phw                               |          Owner:  asn               
     Type:  defect                            |         Status:  needs_information 
 Priority:  normal                            |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
Component:  Tor                               |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  60s, consensus, stall, obfsproxy  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                    |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by karsten):

 Huh, I wonder why nobody can reproduce the problem I'm seeing.  Describing
 it in more detail.  Here's my torrc (note the `UseBridges 1` part which
 phw doesn't seem to use, and maybe rightly so):

 {{{
 DataDirectory /home/ubuntu/src/client
 SocksPort 9000
 UseBridges 1
 Bridge [scrubbed]:443
 Log debug file /home/ubuntu/src/client/debug.log
 Log info file /home/ubuntu/src/client/info.log
 Log notice file /home/ubuntu/src/client/notice.log
 LogTimeGranularity 1 msec
 SafeLogging 0
 }}}

 [scrubbed] is a bridge I just got from bridges.tpo.  I start tor (master,
 7121e7b) using:

 {{{
 /home/ubuntu/src/tor-master/src/or/tor -f /home/ubuntu/src/client/torrc
 }}}

 Bootstraps to 100% just fine.  Then I `rm cached-*` (but not `state`) and
 re-run:

 {{{
 /home/ubuntu/src/tor-master/src/or/tor -f /home/ubuntu/src/client/torrc
 }}}

 Takes a minute to download the microdesc consensus.

 phw, can you try again using a setup closer to mine?

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