Problems runing Tor on Vista x64

[Nick Mathewson]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:51:45PM -0500, phobos at rootme.org wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:51:00AM +0100, porzech at gmail.com wrote 0.7K bytes in 16 lines about:
> : Nov 10 09:34:42.445 [err] Error from libevent: evsignal_init:
> : socketpair: No error
> 
> It reads like libevent doesn't like something in the wow32 subsystem
> inside 64-bit vista.   Do you get a drwatson crash dump?
> 

There are two errors here:

  - The above error message is totally useless.  Future versions of
    libevent should give a better error for this case.

  - The error above usually happens when your firewall or "antivirus"
    software is blocking connections to 127.0.0.1 (that is, it's
    blocking connections from your computer to your computer).  This is
    pretty broken.  First, check if your firewall software is up to date.
    (This is windows, so you might need to randomly reboot.)  Second,
    check whether you can tell it to allow Tor to connect to localhost.

-- 
Nick