It looks as though the patch for bug #680192 has been denied and is as of now:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vidalia/+bug/680192 (This is the official bug report from the original bug reporter's link) https://code.launchpad.net/~jackweirdy/vidalia/680192/+merge/178623 (This link can be used to monitor the patch submission) Applying these fixes from the patch, nothing was wrong in the terminal and Vidalia was able to run as a regular user without having to use gksu or sudo. I was ably to start Vidalia, but still received warnings that got flagged in the message box and was unable to use Vidalia in any meaningful way. These are the messages I received: [Warning] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running? [Warning] /var/run/tor is not owned by this user (brandon, 1000) but by debian-tor (118). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user? [Warning] Before Tor can [not] create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control.authcookie", the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only by the user account that is running Tor. (On some Unix systems, anybody who can list a socket can connect to it, so Tor is being careful.) [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports. For now, I recommend TOR/Ubuntu Users run the Tor Browser Bundle. (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en) As an alternative you can follow my instructions here: 1A) Installing the packages 'tor, tor-geoipdb, and torsocks' in Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic. 1B) In the command prompt type 'aptitude install tor-geoipdb torsocks tor' with 'sudo'. 2) Navigating by Menu>System Settings>Network. 3) Click on the network Proxy. Where it says 'Method' select 'Manual'. Where it says Socks Host type '127.0.0.1' into the first field and '9050' into the second field. 4) Click 'Apply System Wide'. 5) Enter your password in the confirmation dialog. -Tor is now set to be used by all users for all internet activity- You can restore normal use by following step 2, except in step 3 where it says 'Method' select 'Automatic'. Your manual settings will be saved, making it easy to visually start The Onion Router without further configuration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290107 Title: Vidalia does not start. AppArmor prevents To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1290107/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
