cannot bind host port already in use

[DarkRedman]

Hello everyone,

I'm using tor 0.2.1.30-1 and vidalia 0.2.10-3 on Ubuntu 11.04
When I try to start to daemon via Vidalia, I expected that tor would works as habitually. But instead an error occured : tor can't start (and bind) because address/port are already in use.

I looked for any program that could use it with lsof, top commands but in vain. It happens since today even after reboot !

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: tor 0.2.1.30-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 27 22:56:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Runa A. Sandvik (runasand)]

It sounds like tor is already running. What happens if you type 'ps aux | grep tor'? You could try to run 'dpkg-reconfigure vidalia' to tell Vidalia to take over the Tor process and not start Tor until you start Vidalia.

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

I checked with 'ps aux | grep tor' but there is no result. I'll tell the dpkg-reconfigure vidalia command to fix it.

[Timo Witte (spacefish)]

I have the same problem, i think this is a rights problem, because vidalia runs as the current user, but tor as root. Vidalia can´t change the config in /etc/tor/torrc either, because it´s owned by root:root by default.
It would be nice, if vidalia uses homedir/.vidalia/torrc by default and the tor client does not start as a service by default. So vidalia could control tor by startingi it as the current user with -f homedir/.vidalia/torrc. So this bug should be assigned to the vidalia package not tor!

[papukaija (papukaija)]

This bug seems to be related to bug 828504.