#992684 tor 0.4.5.10-1 stop working (FascistFirewall+FirewallPorts)

Package:
tor
Source:
tor
Description:
anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Submitter:
Davide Prina
Date:
2021-08-22 10:09:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#992684#5
Date:
2021-08-22 10:06:55 UTC
From:
To:
Dear DD,

I have an old tor installation and installing the version 0.4.5.10-1 tor
stop working, when I start it

# systemctl start tor
I get the following:
systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
systemd[1]: Finished Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).

If I check the status i get
$ systemctl status tor
● tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2021-08-22 11:03:11 CEST; 1min 38s ago
    Process: 12862 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 12862 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 1ms

so there are not indication of what is going wrong.

I reinstalled previous version and noted that there was a message of
obsolete FascistFirewall FirewallPorts on the logs.

I commented these obsolete configuration and use new configuration ReachableAddresses,
reinstalled the tor version 0.4.5.10-1 and all start to work again.

I think it is better to inform user that this old option don't work
anymore and to print some errors in the logs.

I open this bug report also to inform other users on how to solve this
problem.

Ciao
Davide