Tor Browser hangs on startup
On Linux, both Fedora 19 and Mint 13 and both 32 and 64 bit, the firefox browser (Tor Browser 3.6.1) sometimes hangs and never starts. strace -p shows that the firefox hang is due to FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE. The tor daemon component always starts and works correctly which was verified with torsocks.
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Replying to gk:
What does the log output given on the command line say?
Please see below for a list of the commands and outputs. This still occurs with TBB 3.6.2. Firefox always comes up in debug mode. Thanks for your interest.
$ ./start-tor-browser
Launching Tor Browser Bundle for Linux in ./tor-browser_en-US
(process:1534): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed Jun 11 22:56:32.833 [notice] Tor v0.2.4.22 (git-345e00dc68a052fe) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable and OpenSSL 1.0.1h. Jun 11 22:56:32.834 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Jun 11 22:56:32.835 [notice] Read configuration file "./tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults". Jun 11 22:56:32.835 [notice] Read configuration file "./tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/torrc". Jun 11 22:56:32.854 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150 Jun 11 22:56:32.855 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9151 Jun 11 22:56:32.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (fte exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/fteproxy.bin --managed) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:32.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (obfs2,obfs3 exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/obfsproxy.bin managed) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:32.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (flashproxy exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/flashproxy-client --register :0 :9000) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:32.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file ./tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/geoip. Jun 11 22:56:33.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file ./tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/geoip6. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] New control connection opened. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (fte exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/fteproxy.bin --managed) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (obfs2,obfs3 exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/obfsproxy.bin managed) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Pluggable transport proxy (flashproxy exec ./Tor/PluggableTransports/flashproxy-client --register :0 :9000) does not provide any needed transports and will not be launched. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] New control connection opened. Jun 11 22:56:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit. Jun 11 22:56:36.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. Jun 11 22:56:36.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done.
$ ps ax | grep firefox 1534 pts/0 Sl+ 0:06 ./Browser/firefox -no-remote -profile Data/Browser/profile.default
$ strace -p 1534 Process 1534 attached futex(0x9fe5af48, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL
This is very likely a duplicate of #9531 (moved).
Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to duplicate
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Trac:
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