several Tor crashes

[Justin Aplin]

The very first thing I would try is simply getting rid of the files  
and allowing Tor to recreate them. Personally I'd shut down Tor and  
delete the 'lock' and 'state' files, along with any file or folder  
starting with 'cached', and then restart Tor. Make sure not to touch  
the 'keys' folder or the 'fingerprint' file.

If the issue shows up again, the next thing I'd try is double-checking  
the permissions on the Tor appdata folder, along with *every folder  
above it down to the root*. I had a similar issue trying to run Tor as  
a system service where I needed to grant the system service user  
explicit permissions to every folder leading up to the Tor appdata  
folder. I haven't played with Vista permissions, though, so YMMV.

Let us know how it turns out, and what fixes it.

~Justin Aplin

On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:

> since upgrading to Vidalia 0.2.2.17a couple days ago, Tor has  
> crashed 2x now after running for quite a while each time.  Crashes  
> were an hr? or more apart.  Seemed to be running fine during those  
> times, up to the crashes.  Rarely did I ever have Tor stable  
> versions crash in past (over many vers).
>
> If I report this as bug, what else should I include in report?
>
> Vidala log errors:
>
> Oct 15 12:59:21.741 [Warning] Error replacing "C:\Users\<user name> 
> \AppData\Roaming\tor\state": File exists
> Oct 15 12:59:21.743 [Warning] Unable to write state to file "C:\Users 
> \<user name>\AppData\Roaming\tor\state"
>
>
> Note:  the user\AppData path is not protected - the acct I was  
> running in Vista at time of Tor crash has full access to the paths \  
> files mentioned above.
> The file:  state.tmp DOES exist in the location mentioned.
> I can open / read -  state.tmp - (after Tor crash & Tor is shut  
> down).  Has no obvious errors msgs in the file.
>
> Is another file:  "lock" (w/ 0 bytes) in same folder as  state.tmp  
> (after crash & Tor / Vidalia are shut down).
> Properties of the  "lock" file show was created yesterday 10/14, &  
> last mod 10/15.  Its file attribs are "AN" - archived, not indexed?   
> Other than that, no real info on it.
>
>
> Err Rpt from Windows Vista x64 prepared to send to MS:
>
> Problem signature:
>  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
>  Application Name:    tor.exe
>  Application Version:    0.0.0.0
>  Application Timestamp:    4ca65e57
>  Fault Module Name:    tor.exe
>  Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
>  Fault Module Timestamp:    4ca65e57
>  Exception Code:    c0000005
>  Exception Offset:    000c3bf9
>  OS Version:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
>  Locale ID:    1033
>  Additional Information 1:    fd00
>  Additional Information 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
>  Additional Information 3:    fd00
>  Additional Information 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
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