[tor-bugs] #5348 [Tor bundles/installation]: Vidalia launches successfully, Firefox fails silently.

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#5348: Vidalia launches successfully, Firefox fails silently.
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 Reporter:  pasha                     |          Owner:  erinn        
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:               
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.35
 Keywords:                            |         Parent:               
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:               
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 When launching the TBB using start-tor-browser, Vidalia starts
 successfully, but 'eats' the output of Tor and Firefox unless --debug is
 used.  Thus the problem that a missing lib needed by Firefox typically
 results in Firefox silently failing to launch.

 As a result of troubleshooting this bug, it was also discovered that when
 using the --debug option, Vidalia echoes the entire control-port stream,
 which includes the entire list of relays, which results in 60+ Mb logs.
 The 'info' debugging level would be much more adequate and useful in most
 cases, but to get that you would need a (admittedly trivial) edit to the
 script.

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