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dennisn
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 Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:46 pm Post subject: net-vpn/tor fails to start: Socket creation failed |
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After upgrading net-vpn/tor, it failed to start:
[warn] Socket creation failed: Address family not supported by protocol
[warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
The error message wasn't very helpful, nor was /etc/tor/torrc.sample.
It turns out that the problem was that I didn't have ipv6 support. To fix it I had to append "IPv4Only" to ORPort in torrc:
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ORPort 6969 IPv4Only |
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Hu
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| Please consider filing a problem report with the Tor project, requesting that they produce a better error message in this case. The program knew which address family it was requesting, and if it had instead written Socket creation failed for AF_INET6 address address, you might have found the solution more readily. I suspect most people leave IPv6 support enabled in the kernel, even if they do not use IPv6 over the Internet at large. |
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