More info on my own tor problems - Fixed? NOT

[Chuck Filson]

Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> Tor 0.2.1.7 just died on me with a message about a dns failure and now I 
> cannot restart it.  No error messages (in Tork).  Firing up vidalia...I get 
> this AGAIN:
> 
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> Dec 05 12:27:41.857 [Warning] Error setting configured groups: Operation not 
> permitted
> Dec 05 12:27:41.859 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Problem with 
> User value. See logs for details.
> Dec 05 12:27:41.860 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
> 
> 
> Back to 0.2.0.31 or so.  Tor-0.2.1.7-alpha IS broken.
> 
> praedor
> 

	I don't run Tor-0.2.1.7-alpha but this fix from Tor-0.2.0.32 may work 
for you.

	I ran into this error with 0.2.0.32 and found it was caused by the init 
script for Tor doing an 'su' to the $toruser and then passing the user 
and group options when starting Tor. I removed the user and group 
options when Tor is started and it now works fine. It seems the $toruser 
does not have sufficient permissions to change the programs group.

	Removing the 'su' call would also likely work but I have not tried it.

Chuck Filson