This is because tor is starting as a "system service". $ ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S20tor lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 23 2009 /etc/rc2.d/S20tor -> ../init.d/tor
When you run Vidalia, tor needs to run tor under your user account. Vidalia tries to start tor but can't, because it's already running. So you need to stop tor before running Vidalia: $ sudo /etc/init.d/tor stop If you don't have the need to run tor at system start up (because you always use Vidalia for example), edit /etc/default/tor and set RUN_DAEMON to "no". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680192 Title: Vidalia was unable to start Tor. Check your settings to ensure the correct name and location of your Tor executable is specified. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
