[tor-talk] Fedora repo Tor broken?

Jonathan Marquardt mail at parckwart.de
Sat Dec 10 20:15:06 UTC 2016


> Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost Tor[4096]: Couldn't open "/var/lib/tor/lock" for
> locking: Permission denied
> Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost Tor[4096]: set_options(): Bug: Acting on config
> options left us in a broken state. Dying. (on Tor 0.2.8.9 )
> Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost systemd[1]: tor.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Anonymizing overlay
> network for TCP.

Make sure that the user "toranon" is installed on your system and that the 
directory /var/lib/tor is recursively owned by this user. Write permissions 
are also required.

chown -R toranon:root /var/lib/tor/


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