[tor-relays] Tor Fails to Start on Ubuntu 16.04

[teor]

> On 13 Nov. 2016, at 12:17, heartsucker <heartsucker at autistici.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone
> 
> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 that is unable to start Tor.
> 
> Some useful output:
> 
> root at tor-1 ~ # uname -a
> Linux tor-1 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC 2016
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> root at tor-1 ~ # apt-cache policy tor
> tor:
>  Installed: 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1
>  Candidate: 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1
>  Version table:
> *** 0.2.8.9-1~xenial+1 500
>        500 http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial/main amd64
> Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> root at tor-1 ~ # journalctl -u tor
> ...
> Nov 13 00:52:39 tor-1 systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network
> for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
> Nov 13 00:52:39 tor-1 systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network
> for TCP (multi-instance-master).
> <and then nothing else as it hangs>
> 
> Tor fails to get beyond this message for any config I have tried
> (including the default). I tried replacing the systemd unit file with
> one of my own and was able to start Tor, however it would crash every 5
> minutes (though the logs. The commands used in the systemd file and the
> command init.d script are both able to start Tor correctly if I run them
> in a TTY as I can see from a second terminal.
> 
> Is anyone else running Tor on Xenial, and if so, have they run into this
> problem?

Do you have apparmor installed?
If so, what are the logs?

In any case, what does Tor try to do every 5 minutes?
(Look at the info or debug logs.)

T

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