several Tor crashes

[Joe Btfsplk]

  Thanks Justin,
Good info for the future.  Right now, really busy (job search) so went 
back to stable ver of Vidalia bundle - for now.  Your suggestions may 
well have solved probs w/ current alpha ver, but from my exper w/ 
vidalia / tor for couple yrs, this was a new development crashing 
(multiple times - same apparent reason).  Does suggest alpha ver needs 
some tweaking (that's why it's "alpha").  If get more time to test, will 
try your suggestions.  Hopefully, others will find the post useful.

On 10/16/2010 12:11 AM, Justin Aplin wrote:
> The very first thing I would try is simply getting rid of the files 
> and allowing Tor to recreate them. Personally I'd shut down Tor and 
> delete the 'lock' and 'state' files, along with any file or folder 
> starting with 'cached', and then restart Tor. Make sure not to touch 
> the 'keys' folder or the 'fingerprint' file.
>
> If the issue shows up again, the next thing I'd try is double-checking 
> the permissions on the Tor appdata folder, along with *every folder 
> above it down to the root*. I had a similar issue trying to run Tor as 
> a system service where I needed to grant the system service user 
> explicit permissions to every folder leading up to the Tor appdata 
> folder. I haven't played with Vista permissions, though, so YMMV.
>
> Let us know how it turns out, and what fixes it.
>
> ~Justin Aplin
>
> On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>
>> since upgrading to Vidalia 0.2.2.17a couple days ago, Tor has crashed 
>> 2x now after running for quite a while each time.  Crashes were an 
>> hr? or more apart.  Seemed to be running fine during those times, up 
>> to the crashes.  Rarely did I ever have Tor stable versions crash in 
>> past (over many vers).
>>
>> If I report this as bug, what else should I include in report?
>>
>> Vidala log errors:
>>
>> Oct 15 12:59:21.741 [Warning] Error replacing "C:\Users\<user 
>> name>\AppData\Roaming\tor\state": File exists
>> Oct 15 12:59:21.743 [Warning] Unable to write state to file 
>> "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\tor\state"
>>
>>
>> Note:  the user\AppData path is not protected - the acct I was 
>> running in Vista at time of Tor crash has full access to the paths \ 
>> files mentioned above.
>> The file:  state.tmp DOES exist in the location mentioned.
>> I can open / read -  state.tmp - (after Tor crash & Tor is shut 
>> down).  Has no obvious errors msgs in the file.
>>
>> Is another file:  "lock" (w/ 0 bytes) in same folder as  state.tmp 
>> (after crash & Tor / Vidalia are shut down).
>> Properties of the  "lock" file show was created yesterday 10/14, & 
>> last mod 10/15.  Its file attribs are "AN" - archived, not indexed?  
>> Other than that, no real info on it.
>>
>>
>> Err Rpt from Windows Vista x64 prepared to send to MS:
>>
>> Problem signature:
>>  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
>>  Application Name:    tor.exe
>>  Application Version:    0.0.0.0
>>  Application Timestamp:    4ca65e57
>>  Fault Module Name:    tor.exe
>>  Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
>>  Fault Module Timestamp:    4ca65e57
>>  Exception Code:    c0000005
>>  Exception Offset:    000c3bf9
>>  OS Version:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
>>  Locale ID:    1033
>>  Additional Information 1:    fd00
>>  Additional Information 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
>>  Additional Information 3:    fd00
>>  Additional Information 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
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