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