[tor-bugs] #31257 [Core Tor]: Tor Unexpectedly Exited.

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#31257: Tor Unexpectedly Exited.
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 Reporter:  davidlaxer                        |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor                          |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  TorBrowser-8.5.4-osx64_en-US.dmg  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by davidlaxer):

 The Tor process was still running and causing a port usage error
 E.g. Address already in use.  Killing the process resolved the problem.
 {{{
 $ firefox
 Jul 27 17:49:35.696 [notice] Tor 0.3.5.8 (git-5030edfb534245ed) running on
 Darwin with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2r, Zlib 1.2.5, Liblzma
 N/A, and Libzstd N/A.
 Jul 27 17:49:35.699 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn
 how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
 Jul 27 17:49:35.702 [notice] Read configuration file
 "/Applications/TorBrowser.app/Contents/Resources/TorBrowser/Tor/torrc-
 defaults".
 Jul 27 17:49:35.702 [notice] Read configuration file
 "/Users/davidlaxer/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data/Tor/torrc".
 Jul 27 17:49:35.738 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9151
 Jul 27 17:49:35.740 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9151: Address
 already in use. Is Tor already running?
 Jul 27 17:49:35.745 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind
 one of the listener ports.
 Jul 27 17:49:35.745 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
 }}}

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