Vidalia fails to start

Question

Every time I try to start Vidalia, I get nothing but cold, hard, FAIL. Terminal output is as follows:

REDACTED@REDACTED:~$ vidalia

(process:4854): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, 0 matched rules; type="method_call", sender="(null)" (inactive) interface="org.freedesktop.DBus" member="Hello" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.DBus" (bus)

(<unknown>:4854): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Answer 1

This bug has been confirmed. Some workarounds have been communicated, but no final solution / bugfix.

See launchpad: Bug #680192 “Vidalia was unable to start Tor. Check your setting...” and try to disable the usr.bin.vidalia AppArmor profile.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

It is already answered here and it worked for me. https://askubuntu.com/questions/449824/cant-run-vidalia-due-to-an-apparmor-policy-error

How it works: vidalia needs permission or access to something that apparmor doesn't allow. Here a site which explain the CMD: cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-howto-disable-apparmor-commands before running your workaround check via $ sudo apparmor_status would be a good idea and confirm afterwards that it's disabled

Answer 3

STOP. Do not use vidalia. It is no longer maintained or supported by TorProject and have been deprecated for a long time. Using vidalia poses unknown risks to you and if you are serious about preserving your anonymity, you should not use vidalia. Current versions of the Tor Browser Bundle show you circuit information just like vidalia did.