I'm not talking about the Tor Browser, which still works. I'm talking about the tor
package which no longer works as intended after the upgrade.
When I say it does nothing, I mean it literally doesn't do anything. It doesn't even write to the log file. The service starts, its status is active
when I check it, and it can stop it via service tor stop
as usual. Except it doesn't work at all. When I try torify links http://google.com
, I get this in return:
Error loading http://google.com/:
Host not found
My hidden service doesn't work either, and I find working over a naked IP SSH connection really insecure and inconvenient.
And, like I said, it doesn't write to the log file. At all. It's completely empty, and the last entry was made before the upgrade.
I suspect it might be due to the permissions. Which implies something changed after the upgrade. Anyway, when I simply run tor
rather than sudo service tor start
, this is what I get in response:
Jul 29 10:15:04.081 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service cannot be read: Permission denied
The /var/lib/tor/hidden_service
folder belongs to user debian-tor:debian-tor
with permissions drwx--S---
. When I ran sudo -u debian-tor tor
, I got this:
Jul 29 10:15:32.607 [warn] Directory /home/user/.tor cannot be read: Permission denied
And I got the same warning after I recursively chowned the directory to debian-tor:debian-tor
.
The log file is still empty regardless of what I do. It belongs to debian-tor:adm
and has these permissions: drwxr-s---
.