[tor-relays] Help! TOR Relat dead after upgrading Ubuntu to 18.04

[Ben Riley]

First off, will outline that I am very much a newbie, but was able to get a
relay up and running on a Ubuntu machine.  It was running fine for maybe 12
months (MelbTorBox), with a few resets and software updates along the way.

Just doing my bit to help the network.

Anyway, after the Ubuntu upgrade, I had to re-install TOR and I believed I
did it basically the same way.

Unfortunately, that appears not to be the case.
I've posted the error messages on the Ubuntu forum hoping to get
assistance, but no joy:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1070469/18-04-tor-relay-error-could-not-bind-to-0-0-0-09050-address-already-in-use-i

I'm now coming to the experts to see if I can resurrect relay before I pull
the pin on the idea.

I have BASIC Unix knowledge (I can type commands and that's about it). I
think I might have a couple of copies installed in different places and I
know I have the TOR browser installed (it works fine).

When I type 'nyx' it replies with:
Unable to connect to tor. Maybe it's running without a ControlPort?

So I type 'tor' and get
Sep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Tor 0.3.4.8 (git-5da0e95e4871a0a1) running on
Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.0g, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma
5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Sep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn
how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Sep 19 21:34:24.819 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Sep 19 21:34:24.823 [notice] Based on detected system memory,
MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting
MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Opening Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9050
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:9050: Address already
in use. Is Tor already running?
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks listener
on 127.0.0.1:9050
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Control listener
on 127.0.0.1:9051
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [notice] Closing partially-constructed OR listener on
0.0.0.0:9001
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind
one of the listener ports.
Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

I 'think' my original torrc file may have somehow survived the Ubuntu
upgrade, but I don't know how as  I did a wipe and re-install of Ubuntu.
But when I edited it, there were my contact details sitting there.

Very appreciative of any help!

Thanks
Ben.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/attachments/20180919/64553539/attachment-0001.html>