Hey guys, I recently installed Tor. It had worked fine the other day after install, I went to open it today but it just won’t launch. It pops up briefly in the taskbar but nothing happens and it goes away.
I tried reinstall, restarting computer and reinstall…no dice.
Any ideas? Maybe something I might have changes in a network setting is preventing it from opening or something?
Before you launch Tor, try opening a console and leave it open to read your system log as you launch Tor, maybe it’ll display a useful error…
In your console, run the following command which will display your system log in real time
journalctl -f
The easy alternative if you’re unable to troubleshoot your problem is to download and install the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) from the EFF, unlike Tor unstalled from the OSS, Tor won’t use dependencies and a configuration from your OS, the TBB is completely self-contained, is configured and uses its own stuff.
TSU
How did you install tor? I have tor and tor-browser running. If it is tor-browser, you can create a launcher or invoke it with -
/path/to/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser
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I believe when it worked when I first downloaded it, I had downloaded it through YAST.
Since it hasn’t been working I had uninstalled and tried through YAST again, which didn’t work, then tried through Tor site.
Took a look at this just now, didn’t have a problem installing and running it.
You may first try to uninstall whatever you did to try to install, then run the following, note that any other tor package won’t install what you want.
zypper install torbrowser-launcher
Once that is installed, you should then see the Tor browser menu item in your Internet category.
Running it the first time, it will reach out to the TBB at the EFF, install the tor browser and launch it.
Is not that much different than simply downloading the TBB from EFF without going through YaST or using zypper.
TSU
I had done that as well but didn’t work either.
I can see Tor and Tor launcher settings, but it won’t run. When I try to open Tor, it briefly shows on the taskbar with the loading icon beside the mouse cursor then disappears.
If you try to start from command line you should see any error message which may point to the problem.
Uninstalled everything again and reinstalled again via YAST, seems to be working this time.
Strange lol.
This solution worked for me. Thanks for your help.