Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:39:50AM +0100, yl wrote: > Hello all, > I have a problem with a Tor Exit. > > Tor will not start correctly, but there is nothing in the logs. Here is the > info I got. Is this the debian package? What OS? > You can see the start was at 04:28:59 but it only started when

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread yl
Hello Roger, thanks for your helpful tip. On 12/14/21 12:14 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: My first thought is that somehow during boot Tor fails to start. For example, if at that point in the boot process there is no network, maybe Tor aborts even before it gets to the point of writing anything in

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Are you able to start Tor manually without systemd? Anytime I encounter Tor start issues, I attempt to manually start Tor without the --quiet option to verify whether it's a torrc issue or something else. You might consider increasing the Tor logging level, too. Your existing Tor log shows a DNS

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread bobby stickel
I ran a exit relay before and no DNS timeouts don't cause Tor to not start properly and DNS timeouts seem to happen randomly even if the DNS server is working properlyOn Dec 14, 2021 6:52 AM, "Gary C. New via tor-relays" wrote:Are you able to start Tor manually without systemd? Anytime I encounter

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Olaf Grimm
Hello friends, I see this problem for a long time, but only with some VPS providers from Eastern Europe, with others Tor starts without problems. As there is a discussion here if maybe some system components are not ready in time, it could also depend on the virtualizer used. Additionally, a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread yl
Hello, as there were some follow up emails let me explain the problem. The standard Debian tor@default.service has "After=network.target nss-lookup.target" in it, so one would think network should be fully functional when the services starts, but it was not in my case. At the time when tor star

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 09:26:21PM +0100, yl wrote: > The standard Debian tor@default.service has "After=network.target > nss-lookup.target" in it, so one would think network should be fully > functional when the services starts, but it was not in my case. > At the time when tor started the eno0 di