Permissions issue of /var/lib/tor / DataDirectory most likely, and Tor can't fix it itself since it's likely owned by root, however the systemd unit starts it under a separate user.
2021-01-22 12:03 GMT, Patrice Bönig <mailingl...@pboenig.de>: > Hi @ list, > > I am operating a relay for several years and I really do like it and > will do it for more years. > > My current relay residents on Pi 4. At first I installed it via apt but > now the 32 Bit sources are no longer available. So I thought I could > build the from source. > > The building process went well but now I have a problem with the user > permissions. I can't get tor really running. > > _My first attempt was:_ > > To start tor with "systemctl start tor". But tor won't start and " > journalctl -u tor" says only this: > > Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion > Router daemon > Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router > daemon > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion > Router daemon > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded. > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router > daemon > lines 1-6/6 (END)...skipping... > -- Logs begin at Thu 2019-02-14 11:11:59 CET, end at Fri 2021-01-22 > 11:54:47 CET. -- > Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion > Router daemon processes... > Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router > daemon processes. > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion > Router daemon processes... > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded. > Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router > daemon processes. > > _My second attempt was:_ > > I changed the user of all tor files to the current user "pi". After that > I was able to start tor with "tor --quiet" as user "pi". All went fine > until I rebooted the system and all my changes to "pi" where changed to > "debian-tor". > > _My third attempt was:_ > > I did "sudo tor --quiet". It works, but in "notices.log" is the > information that I shouldn't do that. > > > So, now I am standing here and don't know what to do. I would like to > start tor via systemd but I don't know what's wrong (maybe the > permissions). Does someone has a hint for me? > > regards, > Karl > > > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays