[tor-relays] Tor Relay getting "Failed to terminate process with PID" messages

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:20:18PM -0400, Michael Gorbach wrote:
> Nope, I don?t have any special pluggable transports configured in my
>torrc, which is odd. What other processes would for be starting kicking
>off? All I have set in torrc is [...] PortForwarding

That's likely the one!

You might be one of the first users of this option. Please help us track
down what's going on and file a trac ticket about it.

Do you set PortForwardingHelper? If not, I wonder what it's trying to run
(and whether it finds it).

> I do have tor compiled by gentoo?s portage package manager, with the
>for-hardening, bufferedevents, threads, and nat-pmp flags set.

You should be aware that bufferevents is experimental, and by experimental
in this case I mean "known to not work sometimes and not really a good
idea to use unless you're doing it in order to write patches for it". If
you want to help your fellow Gentoo users, it sounds like you should
file a ticket for gentoo to make it harder to accidentally turn on.

--Roger