[tor-bugs] #12624 [Tor bundles/installation]: tbb-nightly-2014-07-13 chokes with "Bad password or authentication cookie on controller."

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#12624: tbb-nightly-2014-07-13 chokes with "Bad password or authentication cookie
on controller."
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 Reporter:  asn                       |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:
 Keywords:                            |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                            |         Points:
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 I'm trying to use `tbb-nightly-2014-07-13/tor-browser-linux64-tbb-
 nightly_en-US.tar.xz` but I'm getting the following when I start it up:

 {{{
 $ ./tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser
 Launching Tor Browser for Linux in /home/test/tor-browser_en-US/Browser...

 (process:11604): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
 Jul 14 14:18:55.540 [notice] Tor v0.2.6.0-alpha-dev (git-d3b80c6a61912bce)
 running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1h and Zlib
 1.2.8.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.540 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn
 how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
 Jul 14 14:18:55.540 [notice] This version is not a stable Tor release.
 Expect more bugs than usual.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.541 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/test/tor-
 browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults".
 Jul 14 14:18:55.541 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/test/tor-
 browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc".
 Jul 14 14:18:55.544 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9151
 Jul 14 14:18:55.544 [notice] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or
 accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing
 connections.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (fte exec
 ./TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/fteproxy.bin --managed) does not
 provide any needed transports and will not be launched.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy
 (obfs2,obfs3,scramblesuit exec
 ./TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/obfsproxy.bin managed) does not
 provide any needed transports and will not be launched.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (flashproxy exec
 ./TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/flashproxy-client --register :0
 :9000) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (meek exec
 ./TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/meek-client-torbrowser --
 ./TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/meek-client --url=https://meek-
 reflect.appspot.com/ --front=www.google.com) does not provide any needed
 transports and will not be launched.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /home/test/tor-
 browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /home/test/tor-
 browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [warn] Bad password or authentication cookie on
 controller.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [warn] Bad password or authentication cookie on
 controller.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
 Jul 14 14:18:55.000 [warn] Bad password or authentication cookie on
 controller.
 Jul 14 14:18:56.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
 Jul 14 14:18:56.000 [warn] Bad password or authentication cookie on
 controller.
 ...
 }}}

 and it keeps on going. In the meanwhile, I can interact with tor launcher.
 When I try to save my settings and start up Tor, I get `Unable to save Tor
 settings`.

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