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Tor not activated due to auth cookie not being created

  • Android version: 7.1.1
  • Phone model: Sony E6653
  • Briar version: 1.0.5 (183f0c5f)
  • User feedback: "Leider auf diesem Stand unbrauchbar"

Log extract:

05-24 14:55:41.910 I/TorPlugin: Starting Tor
05-24 14:55:43.653 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.646 [notice] Tor 0.2.9.14 (git-73e1a45b461ab669) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2n and Zlib 1.2.8.
05-24 14:55:43.704 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.650 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
05-24 14:55:43.705 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.653 [notice] Read configuration file \"/data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/torrc\".
05-24 14:55:43.705 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.677 [notice] I think we have 8 CPUS, but only 4 of them are available. Telling Tor to only use 4. You can override this with the NumCPUs option
05-24 14:55:43.707 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.679 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:59051
05-24 14:55:43.709 I/TorPlugin: May 24 16:55:43.679 [notice] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
05-24 14:55:46.711 W/TorPlugin: Auth cookie not created
05-24 14:55:46.711 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/tor
05-24 14:55:46.711 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/geoip
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/torrc
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/done
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/control_auth_cookie
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/lock
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/cached-certs
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/state
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/cached-microdescs.new
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/cached-microdesc-consensus
05-24 14:55:46.712 I/TorPlugin: /data/user/0/org.briarproject.briar.android/app_tor/.tor/cached-microdescs
05-24 14:55:46.712 W/PluginManagerImpl: Plugin org.briarproject.bramble.tor did not start
05-24 14:55:46.712 W/PluginManagerImpl: org.briarproject.bramble.api.plugin.PluginException

The log shows that the cookie file exists, but apparently either Tor hasn't written the cookie to the file within the three-second timeout, or the FileObserver has failed to notice.