[tor-relays] A lot of Warn messages when bootstrapping Tor 0.3.2.9 (stable)

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:16:20PM +1100, teor wrote:
> Your relay has probably chosen some overloaded guards.
> The problem comes from the extra load on those machines, not your relay.
> Your relay will eventually try other guards.
> 
> > Jan 25 18:31:54.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit. (Connection timed out; TIMEOUT; count 1503; recommendation warn; host B7047FBDE9C53C39011CA84E5CB2A8E3543066D0 at 199.249.223.60:443)
> > Jan 25 18:31:54.000 [warn] 1503 connections have failed:
> > Jan 25 18:31:54.000 [warn]  1026 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)

The issue here happens because of two bugs.

First is https://bugs.torproject.org/24767 where the flood of circuits
causes us to make a flood of connection attempts to relays that are down.

And second is https://bugs.torproject.org/projects/25061 (which I just
filed) where each of these connection failures gets sent to the "warn
about bootstrapping failure" code.

So I think these warnings are not actually related to your relay's guard
(and that's the bug).

> As long as your relay is fine, there is nothing you can do here.

I think this statement is still true. The warnings are harmless.

--Roger