Bug 1301667

Summary: Tor does not start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004>
Component: torAssignee: Marcel Haerry <mh>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2016-01-25 16:09:50 UTC 
Description of problem:

As of January 2016, the tor package in Fedora EPEL is broken (can be installed, but cannot be run/service started, at least in Centos 7.x). However,an already built tor RPM package do exist in official tor repo, as stated at in section "Name clash warning" here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tor-0.2.7.6-5.el7.x86_64 (from EPEL)
tor-0.2.7.6-tor.1.rh6_7.x86_64 (from the Tor repository)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fresh install CentOS 7 1511 (x86_64) 
2. Install epel-release package
3. Install tor package from EPEL
4. Try to configure and start tor service (for a relay)
5. Note that with tor package from EPEL, tor service won't start
6. Uninstall tor package (EPEL version)
7. Install tor repo as described at https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en
8. Manually exclude EPEL's tor package from installing (as described in "Name clash warning" above)
9  Install tor package from official tor repo
10. With identical configuration (same /etc/tor/torrc as that at point 4), tor service will now start.

Actual results:
With EPEL package, tor service won't start. With original tor RPM package, tor will start.

Expected results:
Present tor package in EPEL should be replaced with the working one.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jamie Nguyen 2016-01-25 17:48:23 UTC 
Will need more information than "is broken".

What error do you receive?
Please post output of: journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=tor.service
What are the contents of your /etc/tor/torrc?
Please post output of: ls -la /var/lib/tor
Comment 2 Marcel Haerry 2017-06-29 16:39:40 UTC 
Given multiple ppl are successfully running tor using the EPEL package, I can only assume, that the torrc in question is trying to setup an onion servcie (as noted in #1375369) and hence fails.

But otherwise I would suggest to close that bug.
Comment 3 Marcel Haerry 2019-01-07 23:37:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1375369 ***