hi people, I searched onwards yesterday and found the solution to this thing. How to get this working again as user?
OK, do the following steps: 1. first open your Terminal and enter this command: sudo chown debian-tor /etc/tor -R 2. Then follows this command in your Terminal: sudo update-rc.d -f tor remove 3. Then follows this Terminal-command: sudo pkill -x tor 4. Then close your Terminal and restart your system. Question: why are these steps necessary? The reason is, because as soon, as you install vidalia, it starts a hidden daemon and this starts the vidalia-process. So if you want to start vidalia manually, the user does not know about this hidden process. And before one can start this thing manually as user, this hidden process needs to be stopped! 5. As soon as you are back on your desktop, go to your menu and open your vidalia-settings. There you know have to open this control-port. More information, you will find here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Vidalia?highlight=vidalia#Zugriffsrechte-auf- Tor-Konfiguration On this site, scroll down nearly until the end until the header "Tor already runs, but got stopped unexpectedly". There you will finde more information about this. There this bug is already described. But: the truth is: you do no longer need this package, because the developer-group had launched a new Tor-Bundle, which already contains vidalia. For installing this new Tor-Bundle, follow the instruction from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBb3BTthJc I did this instruction in Cinnamon and I can confirm, that this works out in Cinnamon. Then after having done this instruction from the video, go back to your menue and start Tor-browser. This immediatelly launches vidalia and please wait a bit until vidalia automaticly starts Tor-Browser. And what the good thing is: all Add-ons from Firefox also work in Tor- Browser, because Tor-Browser itself is based on Firefox. So this instruction-steps solve up this issue and this bug can be closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911723 Title: vidalia 0.2.15-1 is not able to start tor without root priviledges To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tor/+bug/911723/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
