[tor-bugs] #10449 [Tor Launcher]: Tor launcher shuts down poorly when its Tor is a relay

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#10449: Tor launcher shuts down poorly when its Tor is a relay
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 Reporter:  arma          |          Owner:  brade
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Launcher  |        Version:
 Keywords:  tor-relay     |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
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 Edit your TBB's torrc file to include "ORPort 9001". Start TBB, let it
 bootstrap and produce a browser window.

 Then close Tor Browser. Your stdout will say:
 {{{
 Dec 20 01:30:01.000 [notice] Owning controller connection has closed --
 shutting down.
 Dec 20 01:30:01.000 [notice] Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new
 connections, and will shut down in 30 seconds. Interrupt again to exit
 now.
 }}}
 and Tor Browser Bundle will exit:
 {{{
 Tor Browser exited cleanly.
 }}}

 Then thirty seconds later, we get
 {{{
 Dec 20 01:30:31.000 [notice] Clean shutdown finished. Exiting.
 }}}

 If you start your TBB again during this 30 second period, the old Tor
 process is still going, so your new Tor fails to start and things go bad.

 What's going on here is due to Tor's ShutdownWaitLength default of 30
 seconds.

 Vidalia once solved this by popping up a window "you are a relay, do you
 want to close immediately or wait and close nicely"?

 Maybe another answer is that Tor should close immediately, even if it's a
 relay, if it's closing because "Owning controller connection has closed".

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10449>
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