[tor-bugs] #18947 [Applications/Tor Browser]: 6.0a5 is not starting on OS X if put into /Applications
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#18947: 6.0a5 is not starting on OS X if put into /Applications
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Reporter: gk | Owner: mcs
Type: defect | Status: needs_information
Priority: Very High | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Critical | Resolution:
Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201605 | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by mcs):
Replying to [comment:6 cypherpunks]:
> Your old torrc seems to have a Log option whose path wasn't migrated to
the new bundle data location. It should probably point to
`/Users/nickm/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data/Tor/info.log`.
Maybe this wasn't a Tor Browser profile problem after all?
It could be argued that this is a migration problem. We could add code to
Tor Browser that tries to fix up paths inside torrc during profile
migration. But that seems like a bad idea since Tor Browser currently has
no knowledge of how to parse a torrc file, including which config file
directives accept paths.
In an ideal world we would capture stderr inside Tor Launcher (which would
have made the problem obvious at least). This also tells me that fixing
#10059 by providing a mechanism to ask for log messages via the control
port is perhaps not the best solution; in this case, tor exited to soon
for such a solution to be effective.
One thing still confuses me about this ticket though. In the description,
gk said:
> Running "tor.real" from the command line is starting it fine.
Maybe a different torrc was used for that test?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18947#comment:7>
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