[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 nickm):

 Replying to [comment:7 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.

 Getting the stdout/stderr would have been helpful in this case, yeah.

 Also I wonder if somewhere down the line we might have some way in
 particular for Tor to report this kind of error so the Launcher can say
 something like, "Tor found a problem with your configuration.  It said,
 "[message here]". Retry with a fresh configuration?"


 > 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?

 I think that no torrc was used for that test. :)

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