-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 krishna e bera wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:45:56PM -0500, Edward Langenback wrote: >>> I've just upgraded to vidalia-bundle-0.2.1.25-0.2.7.exe and now TOR is >>> not starting at all. I've tried a full uninstall-reinstall with no >>> changes. >> Any ideas what the problem is? I'm still getting the same behavior >> after several reboots and complete re-installs. > > 1) Your insecurity software may have detected changed .exe files and > therefore blocked Tor from starting (it is easy to miss the prompt).
Not too easy to miss in the case of Sygate which puts up a large 'always on top' box asking if the change is ok. > 2) The Tor might have started but browsing though it with Firefox > not be working due to a legacy Privoxy hanging around (it was not > automatically uninstalled by previous bundles for some reason) > and occupying port 8118 so Polipo cannot start. I did have Privoxy running. After shutting it down progress went from stuck at 5% to stuck at 80% > 3) Check the Tor log file for other possibilities. Check the Windows > Events log for related System and Application events. Even though I had set the firewall to allow TOR, it was being blocked. After I created an explicit rule for TOR allowing it to connect to any port, it started working. Thanks for the clues - -- The best way to get past my spam filter is to sign or encrypt your email to me. My PGP KeyId: 0x84D46604 http://blogdoofus.com http://tinfoilchef.com http://www.domaincarryout.com Un-official Freenet 0.5 alternative download http://peculiarplace.com/freenet/ Mixminion Message Sender, Windows GUI Frontend for Mixminion http://peculiarplace.com/mixminion-message-sender/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBS8hWwHV+YnyE1GYEAQhEiAgAhLEC7imXB/YruJ7BrTc5RtFNM9+txP00 ZM/fgJyJUT6X+toy6VPhdsYjERg1VHEbWvNxAX36tA2LFyPDWn8c98s7ldU0WjOO 2s9UK7r9KixrPwyoqzQQCqQrF4uX2XNoVYjiWHv/JIRZ7OBn8ZhH0piNnN4DRydo a1q34KWNTgk35r0GTgVDm0PvriOuIpCVlhc7yDN9Kbbu5qJ3yRTa5h0x5SPU/XTr +rjxNNrC9W/oBpRiKmFE4LYPER6dMnSsIyfjHV9DICQXy/d4O3Bqwslhu6NbbUxS LK5afQKl99BTtV8wSQD/C0g5rhB7bXrlqJkPIVgQEeyvn+y2xl0iLA== =5Dk7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/