[Fwd: (Probably) a known problem?] - cant run a relay node

[Praedor Atrebates]

I erred.  I am no longer using 0.2.1.7.  I had to give up because I could not 
get it working properly.  Doing what I mention below allowed me to run tor via 
Vidalia but not via Tork (my preferred tor manager).  There was an issue with 
the config file that I could never figure out so I went back to a previous 
version of tor that worked (currently that is 0.2.0.31.

Don't think I will mess with 0.2.1.7 again.  Since you use Vidalia, you might 
manage to get it working more than temporarily.

praedor

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:26:51 Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> I had horrible troubles getting the latest tor 0.2.1.7 working after
> upgrading.  I use Tork, not Vidalia, but I suspect the problem is likely
> the same.
>
> I deleted my existing tor directory (in linux, that is in /home/<your home
> directory>/.tor - I have no idea if there is an equivalent windows setup to
> this - the directory that contains your tor configuration file) and started
> tor up again and it worked fine.  I then had to manually edit the config
> file to add my server name, contact info, etc.  Since then, it has worked.
>
> praedor
>
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:15:50 Alessandro Donnini wrote:
> > Thanks for the response. I understand. Below, you will find the copy of
> > the Vidalia generated torrc.
> >
> > The problem is occurring on a system running MS Windows XP SP2.
> >
> > Note that prior to the upgrade from 0.2.0.31 to 0.2.1.7 I had no
> > problems. The problems started occurring as soon as I started Tor again
> > via Vidalia after the upgrade. Also note that I do not have any problems
> > running the Tor client.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > torrc from Document and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Vidalia
> > ======================================================================
> > # This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not be
> > preserved # The old torrc file was renamed to torrc.orig.1 or similar,
> > and Tor will ignore it
> >
> > # If set, Tor will accept connections from the same machine (localhost
> > only) # on this port, and allow those connections to control the Tor
> > process using # the Tor Control Protocol (described in control-spec.txt).
> > ControlPort 9051
> > # Where to send logging messages.  Format is minSeverity[-maxSeverity]
> > # (stderr|stdout|syslog|file FILENAME).
> > Log notice stdout
> >
> > phobos at rootme.org wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:34:40AM -0500, alexdonnini at ieee.org wrote
> > > 2.1K
>
> bytes in 74 lines about:
> > > : I would like to continue to run a Tor relay node but am unable to do
> > > : so until I resolve the problem described below, and I need help in
> > > : order to do that.
> > > :
> > > : > I just upgraded to versions
> > > : >
> > > : > 0.1.10 of Vidalia
> > > : > and
> > > : > 0.2.1.7 of Tor
> > > : >
> > > : > Vidalia is able to run Tor as a client without any problems.
> > > : >
> > > : > Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Error] set_options(): Bug: Acting on config
> > > : > options left us in a broken state. Dying.
> > > : > Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Warning] eventdns: Didn't find any
> > > : > nameservers. Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Warning] Could not config
> > > : > nameservers. Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Error] set_options(): Bug: Acting
> > > : > on config options left us in a broken state. Dying.
> > >
> > > A few things,  you probably haven't received a response because no one
> > > has a good idea how to fix it.  You may have 2 issues, one is that
> > > libevent can't find nameservers, and the other is that the config
> > > options are broken.
> > >
> > > As for the dns issues:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=813
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=868
> > >
> > > Are you running Windows?
> > >
> > > For the config issues, which may be related to the dns issues, do you
> > > have a copy of the torrc that's generated by Vidalia?
> >
> > gpgkeys: key DE3BBB9A8C295FD5 not found on keyserver