Description of problem: tor does not start with systemd. first, it seems, that the ExecStart is wrong, because tor does not support the option --runasdaemon anymore. you can either change it into --option RunAsDaemon 0 or change it in /etc/tor/torrc (RunAsDaemon 0). the next problem is, that it still does not start (using second option above): # systemctl status tor.service tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled) Active: failed since Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:15:45 +0200; 46min ago Process: 8170 ExecStop=/bin/kill -INT ${MAINPID} (code=killed, signal=INT) Process: 8168 ExecStart=/usr/bin/tor --quiet (code=exited, status=255) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/tor.service simply starting tor --quiet does work though. i don't know why bugs #716220 and #684094 are closed errata, when they seem not to be fixed and highly related (if not identical) to this bug.
> tor does not support the option --runasdaemon anymore. you can either change it > into --option RunAsDaemon 0 # tor --runasdaemon 0 Oct 07 10:18:07.882 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.33 (git-8522652d8e9213d4). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) Oct 07 10:18:07.956 [notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.10-stable using method epoll. Good. # tor --option runasdaemon 0 Oct 07 10:18:12.466 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.33 (git-8522652d8e9213d4). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) Oct 07 10:18:12.468 [warn] Command-line option '0' with no value. Failing. # tor --option runasdaemon=0 Oct 07 10:18:20.018 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.33 (git-8522652d8e9213d4). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) Oct 07 10:18:20.020 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Unknown option 'option'. Failing.
hi enrico, thanks for pointing out my mistake. the problem is, that this is not the real error. so maybe you can consider looking into the problem with tor.service not starting with systemctl. thanks.
This bug is also present in Fedora 17. I fixed it by editing /lib/systemd/system/tor.service and changed the following to: Type = forking ExecStart = /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc I hope that works for you Tobias; various forms of this bug have been opened and marked errata since forever so I don't have faith the maintainer will fix this
I really can not reproduce it. Perhaps you can increase the loglevel and provide more details?
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