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

[arisbe]

I've had a similar situation in the past and my problem was that tor was 
actually running but not functional.  Try pidof tor to see if it's 
running with another user.  If yes, you can kill it and restart.

Arisbe


On 9/19/2018 10:56 AM, Felix wrote:
> Hi Ben
>
> Am 19.09.2018 um 13:56 schrieb Ben Riley:
>> 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
> First listener to port 9050 for localhost
>
>> 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
> Second listener to port 9050 for all ips
>
>> Sep 19 21:34:24.824 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:9050: Address already
>> in use. Is Tor already running?--
> Your torrc wants tor to expect both socks AND directory requests at port
> 9050. Only one can.
>
> Check the torrc file and move the Dirport to 9030. Restart tor and check
> the log again if it works better. Somewhere should be the entry
> "Self-testing indicates your DirPort is reachable from the outside.
> Excellent." Same for Orport. If you dont't need socks you can change it
> to <SocksPort 0>.
>
> I hope I got you right. Good luck!
>
> [] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
>

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