[SOLVED] Re: Tor fails to build connections after FreeBSD security update

[Mike L]

Excellent, thank you, it's working here again.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Hans Schnehl <torvallenator at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:37:51AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>
> >      Hmm.  I have 0.9.8l installed, too, but I guess I don't know which
> > version (i.e., base system vs. port) the build procedure for tor links
> in.
>
> BINGO. Thanks, Scott.
>
> According to this (it makes sense to read the whole thread, though):
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-December/058074.html
>
>
> I rebuilt Tor version 0.2.2.6-alpha (git-1ee580407ccb9130)
> available in the portstree and compiled against openssl  0.9.8l .
> I did that in a buildjail, but nevertheless should it should work on the
> main system, if desired.
>
> I added  'WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=YES' to /etc/make.conf and let FreeBSD do the
> rest with 'make install clean' in the tor-devel directory.
>
> Out comes a perfectly compiled binary doing what it is supposed to.
>
> The jail Tor is running in now actually has both, base and ports openssl
> but Tor doesn't care. Building a system without base openssl, see
> the documentation.
> Removing the formerly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH does now have no effect, there
> are two openssl binaries: /usr/bin/openssl (base) and
> /usr/local/bin/openssl ( ports) which shows no negative impact on Tor.
>
> this is what it looks like if compiled with the appropriate setting in
> /etc/make.conf:
> root at ato# ldd /usr/local/bin/tor
> /usr/local/bin/tor:
>        libz.so.4 => /lib/libz.so.4 (0x8817f000)
>        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x88191000)
>        libevent-1.4.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.3 (0x881a6000)
>        libssl.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5 (0x881bb000)
>        libcrypto.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x881ff000)
>        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x88346000)
>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x8835a000)
>        librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x88449000)
>
>
>
> > until you provided the search string.  The low rate of occurrence may be
> > due to the relatively small portion of FreeBSD-based routers that have
> been
> > updated and rebooted out of the relatively small fraction of the router
> > population that is FreeBSD-based.
> >
>
>
> So if the operators of the committedly small portion of FreeBSD Tornodes
> encounter similar, just leave the base openssl.
> This is untested yet on other than the 7.2-Stable platform.
>
> Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha runs fine against openssl 0.9.8l on FreeBSD. Sorry for
> the
> noise and thanks to all.
>
> Regards
>
> Hans
>
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