Torbrowser does not work on FreeBSD

Tor Browser 3.x, 3.5 specifically, no longer works in freebsd 9 and beyond. Even under linux compatibility it fails due to ELF errors.

There's an open request in pcbsd-land to create a port. Will debug

added component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team parent::14942 priority::medium resolution::wontfix severity::normal status::closed tbb-usability type::defect labels

ELF binary type "0" not known.
./start-tor-browser: ./Browser/firefox: Exec format error
Tor Browser exited abnormally.  Exit code: 126

Run brandelf -t Linux Browser/firefox

then run start-tor-browser:

ELF binary type "3" not known.
./start-tor-browser: ./Browser/firefox: Exec format error
Tor Browser exited abnormally.  Exit code: 126

Trac:
Owner: mikeperry to erinn
Cc: N/A to gk
Component: TorBrowserButton to Tor bundles/installation

Trac:
Cc: gk to gk, ln5

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-3.0 added
Cc: gk, ln5 to gk

Trac:
Cc: gk to gk, ln5

Are you by any chance trying to use the 64 bit Linux binaries? That's explicitly not supported by FreeBSD's compatibility layer. Try the 32 bit ones if that's the case.

Since someone was complaining about this on tor-relays@ (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003996.html), I went and looked at this some more since I have a FreeBSD box.

Results:

It doesn't work, and won't work with linux_base-f10, because the glibc in there is too old. Unfortunately the rest of the linux dynamic libraries that are packaged for FreeBSD depend on linux_base-f10 (linux-f10-xorg-libs, linux-f10-alsa-lib, linux-f10-alsa-lib, linux-f10-dbugs-glib, linux-f10-gtk2).

There is a linux_base-c6 port, but none of the attending libraries are there.

There's some sketchy 3rd party repository on github that looks like it has the required packages (updated linux_base-c6, and all the linux-c6-FOO-lib), but I'm not brave enough to merge some random github repo into my ports tree and have it install random binaries (https://github.com/cpu82/skype-ports).

HTH

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, needs-triage added

An overview thread containing some notes and other tickets... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008307.html

Trac:
Summary: Torbrowser 3.x doesn't work in freebsd 9+ to Torbrowser does not work on FreeBSD

Trac:
Parent: N/A to #14942 (moved)

Trac:
Keywords: needs-triage, tbb-3.0 deleted, tbb-usability added
Component: Tor bundles/installation to Tor Browser
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
Owner: erinn to tbb-team

https://torbsd.github.io/blog.html tracks the progress of one effort to port Tor Browser to the BSDs. They have it working on OpenBSD at the moment.

Trac:
Severity: N/A to Normal
Reviewer: N/A to N/A

Replying to teor:

https://torbsd.github.io/blog.html tracks the progress of one effort to port Tor Browser to the BSDs. They have it working on OpenBSD at the moment.

I actually think that's the way to go here and more promising than us maintaining some cross-compilation setup for BSD folks.

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to wontfix

closed

mentioned in issue #16660 (moved)

mentioned in issue #29303 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#10763 (closed)