[tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[Damian Johnson]

For what it's worth process permissions aren't at play here. Arm is
failing to talk with the control port - permissions could cause us to
be unable to read the authentication cookie, but that would be a
different message.

Cheers! -Damian


On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Manager Bahia del Sol LLC
<manager at bahiadelsol.io> wrote:
>
> No worries,
>
> Are you sure the user or group is debian_tor?
> The default is debian-tor in Ubuntu.
>
> If that isn't the problem,
>
> First I would be sure tor is actually running.
> top
> or
> top -u debian-tor
> The second will show if tor is actually running as the user you think it is.
>
> If it is, then see if it is listening on the control port
> sudo netstat -ntlp | grep LISTEN
>
> If it is I would suspect that either a firewall is blocking that port. If
> you have one running
> try shutting it down for a few minutes while you try to start arm.
>
> Or maybe it is a permissions issue where arm is not running as the same user
> as tor. You could try starting arm as root
> to see if it would start. But, do not run arm as root full time. Only try to
> start it as a test.
>
>
>
> --
>  Manager of Bahia del Sol LLC
>
>
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