Bug 525896 - Unable to reach tor network
Summary: Unable to reach tor network
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tor
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Enrico Scholz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-26 20:42 UTC by Phip
Modified: 2010-06-28 14:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 14:49:07 UTC
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Description Phip 2009-09-26 20:42:06 UTC
Description of problem:
Running tor either as a system service or through vidalia, I cannot reach the tor network in Firefox with proxy settings set by the torbutton plugin.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Tor or Vidalia
2. enable torbutton
3. navigate to https://check.torproject.org/

Actual results:
"Sorry. You are not using Tor."

Additional info:

vidalia log is normal:
[Notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64)
[Notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.5-stable using method epoll. Good.
[Notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
[Notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
[Notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.

Netstat shows vidalia and tor ports open:
tcp   0   0 127.0.0.1:8118   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
tcp   0   0 127.0.0.1:9050   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
tcp   0   0 127.0.0.1:9051   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
privoxy 3.0.10-3
tor 0.2.0.35-1
vidalia 0.1.15-1
torbutton 1.2.2 (not fedora repo)

System firewall is disabled.

And yet, https://check.torproject.org/ reports I am not using the tor network.

Comment 1 Simon 2009-10-16 05:05:27 UTC
John, do you still have this problem?

Comment 2 Simon 2009-10-19 05:55:39 UTC
I haven't torbutton (but this shouldn't be the problem) and it works for me!

Comment 3 Phip 2009-10-21 17:21:23 UTC
Yes, still having this problem. All components are still at the same version. Any ideas of what to test? As I said, ports are open and torbutton is making the appropriate proxy settings so I'm not sure what else to check. Everything seems fine except browsing isn't going through tor!

Comment 4 Enrico Scholz 2009-10-22 13:52:48 UTC
What gives

$ curl --socks5-hostname localhost:9050 http://www.whatismyip.org/

?  Please replace the 'localhost:9050' part with the ip + port accordingly your local installation.  When you get a plausible result, you should check firefox + torbutton.

Comment 5 Phip 2009-10-25 19:09:13 UTC
$ curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 http://www.whatismyip.org
89.239.213.173
$ curl http://whatismyip.org
216.183.186.16

I created a new profile in Firefox 3.5.3 and only installed torbutton. It still does not use the proxy and still the test fails. I guess the problem is wholly inside of Firefox/torbutton, then. But I have no idea what it is...

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-04-28 10:35:00 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 14:49:07 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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