[tor-talk] help

Matthew Finkel matthew.finkel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 04:17:16 UTC 2017


Hi Petey,

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 03:46:59AM +0000, petey lean wrote:
> I don't understand why i can't connect to the tor browser, i've joined the
> IRC I just kept getting link to the support page only thing on support page
> i saw about loading tor log files to get help when having a problem was in
> these different mailing lists... here is my tor log file.. or please let me
> know where i should be sending it...
> 
> 
> -- Logs begin at Tue 2017-08-15 19:50:52 UTC, end at Tue 2017-08-15
> 20:24:53 UTC. --
> Aug 15 19:50:55 kali systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for
> TCP...
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1400]: Aug 15 19:50:56.422 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9
> (git-100816d92ab5664d) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL
> 1.1.0f and Zlib 1.2.8.
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1400]: Aug 15 19:50:56.424 [notice] Tor can't help
> you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at
> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1400]: Aug 15 19:50:56.433 [notice] Read
> configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1400]: Aug 15 19:50:56.433 [notice] Read
> configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1400]: Configuration was valid
> Aug 15 19:50:56 kali tor[1407]: Aug 15 19:50:56.582 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9
> (git-100816d92ab5664d) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL
> 1.1.0f and Zlib 1.2.8.
[snip]
> Aug 15 19:50:57 kali Tor[1407]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
> Aug 15 19:50:58 kali Tor[1407]: Our clock is 6 hours, 9 minutes behind the
> time published in the consensus network status document (2017-08-16
> 02:00:00 UTC).  Tor needs an accurate clock to work correctly. Please check
> your time and date settings!
[snip]
> Aug 15 20:04:54 kali Tor[1407]: Received directory with skewed time
> (DIRSERV:199.254.238.53:443): It seems that our clock is behind by 7 hours,
> 0 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work:
> please check your time, timezone, and date settings.
> Aug 15 20:04:55 kali Tor[1407]: Our clock is 6 hours, 55 minutes behind the
> time published in the consensus network status document (2017-08-16
> 03:00:00 UTC).  Tor needs an accurate clock to work correctly. Please check
> your time and date settings!
> Aug 15 20:04:55 kali Tor[1407]: I learned some more directory information,
> but not enough to build a circuit: We have no recent usable consensus.

It looks like Tor thinks your system clock is roughly 7 hours behind the
correct time. Is the timezone correctly configured on your system or did
you recently change your timezone or change your clock?

If I take a guess, I'd say your system is configured with UTC as the timezone,
but the clock itself is set for your local time. Do you know how to confirm
this and can you confirm this? 

- Matt

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