[tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports

Christian brightsidedarkside at t-online.de
Sun Jun 24 00:00:28 UTC 2012


As I forgot to mention:

Itself does not tell about a broken state and dying in agony.
It just does.. nothing.

> Hi dear fellows,
> 
> I'm sorry to use again this way of addressing my problem as in Vol 17,
> Issue 5. It will be the last time. Promise.
> 
> I can't find any solution on the web.
> When starting tor, it always reads "Failed to parse/validate config:
> failed to bind one of the listener ports".
> 
> Furthermore, there are only empty logfiles, independent of the
> configuration of the logs option "notice".
> 
> Has anyone else this kind of problem?
> 
> This is my ORPort section:
> ORPort 443 NoListen
> ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise
> 
> I even can't make a control port accessible for e.g. arm running on the
> same machine, although I didn't use it before.
> 
> Client functionality is not working either. No connections through tor.
> 
> Tor is configured as a bridge, my OS is Ubuntu lucid 10.04 and Tor's
> version is 2.3.17-beta-1~lucid+1.
> 
> It just worked until the upgrade to the new version through torproject's
> repository.
> 
> I really do have forwarded external port 443 to port 9090 on my machine.
> 
> It nearly has me left in broken state dying.
> 
> I checked for new requests concerning apparmor allowance, but there were
> only the ability to chown and access to /sys/devices/system/cpu/ which I
> granted both.
> 
> I'm not so really competent with computers and therefore grateful for
> any help.
> Strange. No error logs, no function, no topic on the web..
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> christian
> 




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