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0004989

[vidalia]

minor

always

2012-08-04 01:09

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jgoerzen

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normal

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open

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new

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Summary

0004989: /opt/csw/bin/vidalia executes but fails to start tor

Description

You may have trouble starting tor with vidalia and see this in your vidalia log:

[Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/opt/csw/bin"
[Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

Since version 0.2.19 Vidalia uses the path of the vidalia executable as the DataDirectory. This is designed deliberately in the software and is not a bug, but rather a security check. It has todo with the Tor Browser Bundle project.

Please see:

https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/vidalia [^]

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Work around:

A simple way to work around this problem is to copy the vidalia binary to the user's home directory the run it from there. eg:

cp /opt/csw/bin/vidalia $HOME/.vidalia/vidalia
exec $HOME/.vidalia/vidalia

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