Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 10/18/2010 9:34 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: BTW, I don't see (or remember) the 'keys' folder or 'fingerprint' file - don't remember seeing them in past. My bad. These files only show up when one is running a bridge/relay/exit node. The majority of my work with Tor is setting up and running exi

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
wondering if reinstalling with the alpha version would have yielded the same results. Well may have. Only reason didn't do that is time limitations. Outcome wouldn't have been sure fix - but always a good practice. GOOD advice for others when encounter probs. I knew the stable ver was wo

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 10/18/2010 9:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Thanks Justin, Good info for the future. Right now, really busy (job search) so went back to stable ver of Vidalia bundle - for now. Fair enough. Better one more working node on the network than a broken one you don't have time to play with. You

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
BTW, I don't see (or remember) the 'keys' folder or 'fingerprint' file - don't remember seeing them in past. Re: Vista permission. It's not that the alpha ver didn't run - quite a while in fact - before crash. Seems if was a permissions issue, would've seen probs right off when started usin

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread 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 (mult

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-15 Thread Justin Aplin
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 o

several Tor crashes

2010-10-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
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 ver