16/11/12 15:50, Ague Mill wrote:
> anonym:
>> anonym:
>>> Here's a small post-freeze bugfix for Tails 0.15 which fixes the issue
>>> with bridge mode + tordate discovered by ague. It's merged into
>>> experimental.
>>>
>>> Branch: bugfix/bridge_mode_vs_tor_restarts
>>> Ticket: https://tails.boum.org/todo/bridge_mode_vs_tor_restarts/
>>>
>>> commit 3f876314055b83f1aacd5ed790d03bad411a8aae
>>> Author: Tails developers <[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Thu Nov 15 16:56:26 2012 +0100
>>>
>>>     Create wrappers for (re)starting Tor and Vidalia.
>>>
>>>     If Vidalia is running, and Tor is restarted, then we also want to
>>>     restart Vidalia. This is because Vidalia doesn't re-connect to Tor
>>>     automatically, so the user has to restart it to be able to control Tor
>>>     again. Also, any options set by Vidalia will be lost since they
>>>     weren't written to torrc, which causes Tor to reach an inactive state
>>>     if it's restarted in "bridge mode".
> 
> Quoting the diff:
> 
>> --- a/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/sbin/unsafe-browser
>> +++ b/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/sbin/unsafe-browser
>> @@ -203,15 +203,10 @@ maybe_restart_tor () {
>>      # wheels turning)
>>      if ! tor_is_working; then
>>          echo "* Restarting Tor"
>> -        if ! service tor restart; then
>> +        restart-tor
>> +        if ! service tor status >/dev/null; then
>>              error "`gettext \"Failed to restart Tor.\"`"
>>          fi
>> -        local counter=0
>> -        until [ "${counter}" -ge 10 ] || nc -z localhost 9051
>>          2>/dev/null; do
>> -            sleep 1
>> -            counter=$((${counter}+1))
>> -        done
>> -        /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/60-vidalia.sh clearnet up
>>          2>/dev/null
>>      fi
>>  }
> 
> This part makes me nervous. Previously there was a timer that would try
> several time before displaying an error message. This change would mean
> that tor needs to have its pid file ready really fast to prevent the
> error message from being displayed…
> 
> I think keeping a small loop, or at least sleeping for a few seconds
> would be better.

True, but IMHO that loop is beneficial at every place restart-tor maybe
will restart Vidalia, so that's a better place for it. See commit:

c61392a Wait for the ControlPort to be up before starting Vidalia.

Cheers!

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