[tor-relays] Tor Fails to Start on Ubuntu 16.04

[r1610091651]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, 04:43 teor, <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 13 Nov. 2016, at 12:17, heartsucker <heartsucker at autistici.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey everyone
> >
> > I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 that is unable to start Tor.
> >
> > Some useful output:
> >
> > root at tor-1 ~ # uname -a
> > Linux tor-1 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC 2016
> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > root at tor-1 ~ # apt-cache policy tor
> > tor:
> >  Installed: 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1
> >  Candidate: 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1
> >  Version table:
> > *** 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1 500
> >        500 http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial/main amd64
> > Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > root at tor-1 ~ # journalctl -u tor
> > ...
> > Nov 13 00:52:39 tor-1 systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network
> > for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
> > Nov 13 00:52:39 tor-1 systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network
> > for TCP (multi-instance-master).
> > <and then nothing else as it hangs>
> >
> > Tor fails to get beyond this message for any config I have tried
> > (including the default). I tried replacing the systemd unit file with
> > one of my own and was able to start Tor, however it would crash every 5
> > minutes (though the logs. The commands used in the systemd file and the
> > command init.d script are both able to start Tor correctly if I run them
> > in a TTY as I can see from a second terminal.
> >
> > Is anyone else running Tor on Xenial, and if so, have they run into this
> > problem?
>
> Do you have apparmor installed?
> If so, what are the logs?
>
> In any case, what does Tor try to do every 5 minutes?
> (Look at the info or debug logs.)
>
> T
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After having installed tor on 16.04, i had to disable & re-enable te
service manually to make it start. Then i also had to disable apparmor,
override profile to none

Then it worked

Seb

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