Why doesnt vidalia detect that tor is already running. That way you are independent of any changes in the internals of the tor package, e. To start tor manually in debian or ubuntu i guess i would recommend using. Iue just installed vidalia and tried to start it with simpe user rights. Polipo is a web proxy or proxy that can use the tor socks server. Upon installation, tor will automatically startup when booting ubuntu.
Is there anything anyone knows of that i can do to correct this. Everytime i shutdownrestart my computer without properly turning off the tor network and get the following message from vidalia. The only way i can get vidalia to work again is to reinstall vidalia. When vidalia opens first, it will check processes of tor and try to connect with the control port. Ubuntudebian vidalia detected that the tor software exited unexpectedly you probably got an error.
All we need to do is reconfigure tor so it allows vidalia to connect and start using the tor process. Install tor, vidalia and polipo on ubuntu binarytides. Tor is an anonymity solution that can be used as a proxy over the internet. Ubuntutorvidalia detected that the tor software exited. Vidalia detected that the tor software exited unexpectedly youtube. The error message that, vidalia detected is that the tor software exited unexpectedly. On my debianubuntu style linux workstation, i can just click on the icon without having to run it from the command line. So when using the polipo web proxy with tor the requests go like this. Vidalia is the graphical controller for tor software, they go hand in hand. Select the appropriate users on that page and continue. And in your question you specifically stated that you use the tor software. Please check the message log ubuntu tor exited why not fixed in vidalia package. So tor must be reconfiguredm, so that allows the vadalia to built connections with tor. Vidalia detected that the tor software exited unexpectedly.
When starting vidalia, i received the following error. Whenever ive had vidalia running, stop tor, and close vidalia out, the next time i try. Tor unexpectedly exited when i started using terminal tor stack. When you open vidalia, it will first check if there is an existing tor process and try to connect to the control port of tor.
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