[tor-bugs] #6905 [arm]: arm 1.4.5.0 connecting to tor 0.2.4.2: ProtocolError: Badly formatted reply line: unknown type 'P'

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#6905: arm 1.4.5.0 connecting to tor 0.2.4.2: ProtocolError: Badly formatted reply
line: unknown type 'P'
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 Reporter:  cypherpunkx  |          Owner:  atagar           
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:                   
Component:  arm          |        Version:                   
 Keywords:               |         Parent:                   
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                   
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Changes (by atagar):

  * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 Hi cypherpunkx. Thanks for the stacktrace! That's definitely a bug, but
 isn't enough for me to really work with. From this I can tell from that
 TorCtl tried to parse content that wasn't formatted like a controller
 message. Some possible causes are...

 - You connected to something other than tor.
 - Bug with a new tor version.
 - Some use case I'm not thinking of triggering an old bug.

 ... unfortunately all those causes are pretty unlikely. Are you able to
 consistently reproduce this? If so then to troubleshoot this we'll need to
 know the whole message that we're getting. To do this we'll need to tweak
 arm slightly (unfortunately what we need isn't exposed by TorCtl's normal
 logging).

 If you can repro this and want to troubleshoot it further then let me
 know.

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