[solved] Tor fails to start at Linux boot: "Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050"

[Fli]

Hello,



during MX Linux boot i am seeing errors
"Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050" when system is starting tor service at boot time."

Can you suggest what to try?


netstat -tulnp|grep tor


tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2773/tor
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9051 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2773/tor


lsof -p 2773

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
tor 2773 root cwd DIR 8,3 4096 260553 /root
tor 2773 root rtd DIR 8,3 4096 2 /
tor 2773 root txt REG 8,3 3092568 264462 /usr/bin/tor
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 3664586 518314 /root/.tor/cached-microdescs
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 92584 260110 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 79936 260116 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0.21.0
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 468920 260188 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.3
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 1112184 262104 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20.1.6
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 72024 275920 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1.7.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 31744 263638 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 155400 260205 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 1689360 262790 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 14640 262794 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 135440 263633 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 22768 260082 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2.25
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 284968 261168 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libseccomp.so.2.3.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 542632 260351 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1.1.2
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 154376 260131 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5.2.2
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 2711616 272561 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 442984 272562 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 293264 275370 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.0.so.5.1.9
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 1063328 262795 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 105088 260237 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.8
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 153288 262786 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.24.so
tor 2773 root mem REG 8,3 557552 259934 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0.17.0
tor 2773 root 0r CHR 1,3 0t0 5384 /dev/null
tor 2773 root 1u REG 8,3 1991 3213 /var/tmp/tmpfo5pdXp (deleted)
tor 2773 root 2u REG 8,3 1991 3213 /var/tmp/tmpfo5pdXp (deleted)
tor 2773 root 3u a_inode 0,13 0 5382 [eventpoll]
tor 2773 root 4u unix 0x00000000b40823f0 0t0 12024 type=STREAM
tor 2773 root 5u unix 0x00000000453c5640 0t0 12025 type=STREAM
tor 2773 root 6u IPv4 12026 0t0 TCP localhost:9050 (LISTEN)
tor 2773 root 7u IPv4 12027 0t0 TCP localhost:9051 (LISTEN)
tor 2773 root 8uW REG 8,3 0 523232 /root/.tor/lock
tor 2773 root 11u IPv4 10681 0t0 TCP lynx:45728->207.180.224.17:9001 (ESTABLISHED)


service tor status

[FAIL] tor is not running ... failed!


grep -v "#" /etc/tor/torrc

ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1


find /etc/init* -type f -iname *tor*


/etc/init.d/tor

find /etc/init* -type f -iname *tor*

Solution

After doing "grep tor /var/log/syslog" i found that there is the cronjob that launching tor. So i searched and found i added a cronjob that was starting the Tor init script manually at boot. So i removed this and then the tor service normally started at next reboot.