Newbie needs help

[Bob Williams]

On Friday 24 July 2009 12:17:23 Christian Fromme wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Bob
>
> Williams<security at barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote:
> >> Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address
> >> with your assigned addressed.
> >
> > That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume
> > that shows that tor is not working.
>
> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or
> see anything at all?
>
I have the following line uncommented in torrc

Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log

and that file contains the following

---quote---
Jul 23 09:15:19.124 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening new log file.
Jul 23 09:15:19.295 [warn] Couldn't load consensus networkstatus from 
"/home/bob/.tor/cached-consensus"
Jul 23 09:15:19.601 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have no network-status consensus.
Jul 23 09:15:21.794 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 0/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:23.563 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 96/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:24.436 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 192/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:24.460 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 288/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:25.236 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 318/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:25.666 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but 
not enough to build a circuit: We have only 413/1663 usable descriptors.
Jul 23 09:15:26.076 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build 
circuits.
Jul 23 09:15:33.062 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like 
client functionality is working.
Jul 23 18:49:38.498 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
Jul 23 18:49:38.499 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
Jul 23 18:50:04.641 [notice] Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly.
Jul 23 20:29:44.757 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
Jul 23 20:29:45.237 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build 
circuits.
Jul 23 20:29:51.412 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like 
client functionality is working.
---unquote---

I notice there is nothing recorded for today!

Thanks for your help
-- 
Bob