[tor-bugs] #9936 [TorBrowserButton]: TBB TorButton 'New Identity' with remote 'tor' says "It does not have access to the Tor Control Port."

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#9936: TBB TorButton 'New Identity' with remote 'tor' says "It does not have
access to the Tor Control Port."
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 Reporter:  starlight         |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:
 Keywords:                    |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                    |         Points:
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 Full message is

 Torbutton cannot safely give you a new identity. It does not have access
 to the Tor Control Port. Are you running Tor Browser Bundle?

 version 1.5.2

 Looked at code and wrote this script:

 {{{
 #!/bin/bash
 export TOR_CONTROL_HOST="10.29.88.1"
 export TOR_CONTROL_PORT="9151"
 export TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD="xxx"

 nc ${TOR_CONTROL_HOST:?} ${TOR_CONTROL_PORT:?} <<EOF
 AUTHENTICATE "${TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD:?}"
 SIGNAL NEWNYM
 QUIT
 EOF

 cd /home/tor/tor-browser_en-US
 /home/tor/tor-browser_en-US/App/Firefox/firefox -no-remote -profile
 /home/tor/tor-browser_en-US/Data/profile
 }}}

 Which clearly demonstrates the values are correct and the "SIGNAL NEWNYM"
 command works as it should and that Firefox ESR 17.0.9 with TorButton
 1.5.2 fails here.

 See changes, perhaps fixes, have been made to the related logic but the
 newer code is not yet in either the stable or development release and I
 could not easily test it.  The related Vidalia code in
 src/chrome/content/torbutton.js looks ok.  Thought it might be hex-
 encoding the password and tried that but it made no difference.

 Tried with

     tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.3.25-13-dev-en-US

 and

     tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.4.17-beta-2-dev-en-US

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