Ticket #110 (closed support: duplicate)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

on osx: Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use.

Reported by: spam2@… Owned by: developer
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Vidalia Version:
Keywords: Cc: spam2@…

Description

Just curious how to resolve the issues below on OSX... any help would be much appreciated. Don't understand how Tor would already be running or why the port would already be in use..

Jul 10 04:25:47:357 [Notice] Tor v0.1.1.22. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. Jul 10 04:25:47:374 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method poll. Good. Jul 10 04:25:47:379 [Notice] connection_create_listener(): Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 Jul 10 04:25:47:384 [Warning] connection_create_listener(): Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running? Jul 10 04:25:47:389 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports. Jul 10 04:25:47:393 [Error] tor_init(): Reading config failed--see warnings above. For usage, try -h.

Change History

Changed 3 years ago by edmanm

  • cc spam2@… added
  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to duplicate
  • type changed from defect to support

You saw those messages because Tor was already running, as you mentioned. My guess is that you had previously installed their Tor/Privoxy-only bundle and then installed our bundle over top of it. The best way to install Vidalia on OS X is to just do a clean install from our bundle. (See this ticket for similar information.] It would be nice if our installer played nicer with the old Tor/Privoxy installer and we're working on it, but for now the recommended thing to do is to uninstall the Tor/Privoxy-only bundle before installing ours.

Changed 2 years ago by vidaliatrac@…

  • status changed from closed to reopened
  • resolution duplicate deleted

I could never get Vidalia to work on my OS X box and I get the same error so I decided to follow the advice on the vidalia install page for OS X and uninstall my original tor package (which actually was the tor/privoxy/vidalia tripple install) and then do a new install using the OS X package off the vidalia website. The end result is that privoxy and tor are working just fine but I still get the same 127.0.0.1:9050 "address laready in use" error that was described above.

Changed 2 years ago by edmanm

  • status changed from reopened to closed
  • resolution set to duplicate

You get that message because you already have a Tor process running. Kill the existing Tor process and then you can use Vidalia to start a new one.

Vidalia 0.0.8 will be able to talk to a Tor process that is already running, instead of always needing to start its own. See Ticket #58.

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