[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 88, Issue 41

Yash Kumar yashkr.99 at gmail.com
Thu May 24 06:59:23 UTC 2018


Hi Jonathan,
 Thank you for offering your support. Yes, you are absolutely right.The
exact problem which I was facing was that, I wasn't able to find the
"Self-testing"
line in /var/log/syslog file.
I followed the instructions as told by you and I'm mentioning their results
as well below.
1. I executed the command:

 $ sudo systemctl status tor

    I got the following output:​

[image: tor status.jpg]


2. I checked whether there was an issue related to permissions for the
command:

 $ cat /var/log/syslog

    I figured out that there wasn't any error running that command
(although I'm not attaching the output of that command).

I am still not getting that "Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog, which
is the problem I'm facing specifically.

It would be of great help if you can think of any other possible issue
because of which I am facing this problem.

Thanks,
Yash Kumar

On Wed, 23 May 2018 at 17:30, <tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org>
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> Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 20:25:33 -0400
> From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at cmu.edu>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] tor enters uninterruptible sleep forever
>         when using transparent proxy
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> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Nicolás Dato <nicolas.dato at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> tor enters uninterruptible sleep forever when using transparent proxy
> >
> > For future references, the issue was the kernel version 4.4.118,
> > upgraded and the problem was gone.
>
> A bit of Unix sysadmin lore that isn't as widely advertised as it once
> was (because, thankfully, it comes up far less often than it used to):
> there are only three reasons why a process would remain in an
> uninterruptible sleep for more than a few milliseconds: an abnormally
> slow storage peripheral (e.g. a tape drive being rewound, or a hard
> drive that's about to fail), a network file server that isn't
> responding to messages, or a kernel bug.
>
> zw
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:48:10 +0530
> From: Yash Kumar <yashkr.99 at gmail.com>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: [tor-relays] Setting up tor relay
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> Dear all,
>  I want to setup my machine as a tor relay. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on
> a Intel i5 processor with 4 GB of memory.
> I followed the instructions given on this link
> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, but was
> getting some issue. In one of the later steps, it says "Verify that your
> relay works". This is done by checking my logfile(syslog) contains the
> following text:
>
> "Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside.
> Excellent. Publishing server descriptor."
>
> I checked the syslog by the command:
>
> $ cat /var/log/syslog
>
>
> To bring it to your knowledge, I have followed all the previous steps
> mentioned on that link
> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, and was
> successfully able to execute all the commands. I would request you to
> please help me out in setting up my machine as  a relay to make tor network
> faster and more usable.
>
> Thank you,
> Yash Kumar
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 09:07:23 +0200
> From: Jonathan Marquardt <mail at parckwart.de>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Setting up tor relay
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> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:48:10AM +0530, Yash Kumar wrote:
> >  I want to setup my machine as a tor relay. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> on
> > a Intel i5 processor with 4 GB of memory.
> > I followed the instructions given on this link
> > <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, but was
> > getting some issue. In one of the later steps, it says "Verify that your
> > relay works". This is done by checking my logfile(syslog) contains the
> > following text:
> >
> > "Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside.
> > Excellent. Publishing server descriptor."
> >
> > I checked the syslog by the command:
> >
> > $ cat /var/log/syslog
> >
> >
> > To bring it to your knowledge, I have followed all the previous steps
> > mentioned on that link
> > <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, and was
> > successfully able to execute all the commands. I would request you to
> > please help me out in setting up my machine as  a relay to make tor
> network
> > faster and more usable.
>
> Hi,
>
> first of all: Thanks for your efforts.
>
> Although you didn't actually mention it, I'll assume that you didn't find
> the
> "Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog. Is that correct? If so, please
> check
> first whether Tor has started at all by running the following command:
>
> $ sudo systemctl status tor
>
> Please copy the output of that command.
>
> Alternatively, maybe also the following happened to you when you wanted to
> check whether your relay works:
>
> $ cat /var/log/syslog
> cat: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied
>
> If that's the case, please retry with:
>
> $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog
>
> If I didn't cover your problem here, please be more specific in what
> actually
> doesn't work.
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