service tor start looks ok, but it fails due to a typo in /etc/init.d/tor do a "grep pidof /etc/init.d/tor In order to make tor start (and stay up), I had to change "pidofproc" to "pidof" on line 60 in /etc/init.d/tor version 0.1.2.13
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239842 ***