[tor-bugs] #9229 [Tor]: While bootstrapping, Tor clients stall for 60s when obfsproxy bridges are used.

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#9229: While bootstrapping, Tor clients stall for 60s when obfsproxy bridges are
used.
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 Reporter:  phw                               |          Owner:  asn               
     Type:  defect                            |         Status:  needs_information 
 Priority:  normal                            |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
Component:  Tor                               |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  60s, consensus, stall, obfsproxy  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                    |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by phw):

 Replying to [comment:5 asn]:

 > Philipp, I cannot reproduce this in my workstation
 >
 > Does it always happen to you? Can you remind me if it also happens when
 you have cached descriptors? Any other info?

 Sorry for taking so long to respond.

 Yes, it seems to always happen.

 I just tested it again with the newest
 [https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/linux/tor-pluggable-
 transports-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.4.16-beta-1-pt1-dev-en-US.tar.gz
 PTTBB]. When starting it for the very first time (i.e., with an empty data
 directory), it bootstraps as expected. Subsequent times stall for 60
 seconds. My system is a 64-bit Debian wheezy. The PTTBB is unconfigured
 except that I disabled flash proxies but I remember dcf mentioning that he
 experienced this with flash proxies as well. And yes, this also happens
 with cached descriptors, i.e., the file `cached-descriptors.new` being
 non-empty.

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