Not enough networkstatus documents to launch requests

[James Muir]

Dr. Death wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run tor under freebsd 6.2, and got this message with debug:
> 
> 
> [root at h4x0r /var/log/tor]$tail -f debug.log
> Mar 11 15:04:38.314 [notice] Tor 0.1.1.26 opening new log file.

<snip

> Mar 11 15:04:50.686 [info] update_router_descriptor_client_downloads(): Not enough networkstatus documents to launch requests.
> Mar 11 15:05:01.695 [info] update_router_descriptor_client_downloads(): Not enough networkstatus documents to launch requests.
> Mar 11 15:05:12.705 [info] update_router_descriptor_client_downloads(): Not enough networkstatus documents to launch requests.
> 
> its loop the message " update_router_descriptor_client_downloads(): Not enough networkstatus documents to launch requests."
> 
> there is also no cached-routers under ~/.tor
> 
> any idea ?

Sometimes it takes Tor a while to collect network status documents. In 
my experience, if you just let Tor keep trying for a few minutes, say 
5-10mins, then this problem will work itself out.  Of course, if the 
directory servers are unreachable from your location, then the problem 
isn't going to go away.  You should try entering the IP address of a 
directory server in your browser to just to make sure.

-James