[tor-bugs] #11200 [Tor]: cached consensus inteferes with DisableNetwork=1

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#11200: cached consensus inteferes with DisableNetwork=1
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     Reporter:  mcs      |      Owner:
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  needs_review
     Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
    Component:  Tor      |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.21
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  tor-client, 024-backport,
Actual Points:           |  025-triaged, andrea-review-0254, tbb-tor-
       Points:           |  backported-3.6b2, TorBrowserTeam201408
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Comment (by arma):

 I managed to reproduce the bug! If you completely bootstrap your Tor
 Browser, and then turn it off and go offline and start it and let it fail,
 then then next time Tor Browser starts it will start with DisableNetwork
 set, thus setting up the conditions for this bug. But it only works when
 you completely bootstrap the first time -- otherwise it will have some
 directory stuff to fetch which will un-wedge you.

 I tested stock maint-0.2.5 with a fully bootstrapped datadir, and
 encountered the bug.

 Then I tested my patches here, and they appear to resolve the bug. Great.

 I've pushed a bug11200-combined branch that squashes it all together.

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