Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I ran that command way back at the start. I'm assuming I don't have to run it every time the machine reboots or updates? I ran it again this morning and it made no difference.

Ah logs, you say that like I know where those are :P
When I run sudo tail /var/log/tor/log - I get nothing.
I found the Logs app and run that to get all the system logs - way too much stuff and I couldn't move it to here, so I found this command (Google) cat /var/log/syslog | grep tor -i and got the following (I think I've included 2 set of attempts to boot up):

Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Starting with guard context "default"
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Signaled readiness to systemd
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Server managed proxy encountered a method error. (obfs4 listen tcp 0.0.0.0:443: bind: permission denied)
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Managed proxy at '/usr/bin/obfs4proxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be destroyed.
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: tor_assertion_failed_(): Bug: ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836: managed_proxy_stdout_callback: Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed; aborting. (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug: Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed in managed_proxy_stdout_callback at ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(log_backtrace_impl+0x45) [0x55e1c7174965] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_assertion_failed_+0x94) [0x55e1c716fd24] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(+0xd3f5f) [0x55e1c7045f5f] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(+0x1da363) [0x55e1c714c363] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.6(+0x1e8f8) [0x7f59876138f8] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.6(event_base_loop+0x53f) [0x7f598761433f] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(do_main_loop+0xb4) [0x55e1c6fe45e4] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_run_main+0x122d) [0x55e1c6fd18ad] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_main+0x3a) [0x55e1c6fce9ca] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(main+0x19) [0x55e1c6fce559] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f5985d3cb97] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(_start+0x2a) [0x55e1c6fce5aa] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 74.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Jul 19 14:32:24.374 [notice] Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Jul 19 14:32:24.374 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Jul 19 14:32:24.374 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Jul 19 14:32:24.374 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Jul 19 14:32:24.379 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28062]: Configuration was valid
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.582 [notice] Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.582 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.582 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.582 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.587 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.587 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.587 [notice] Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.587 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.588 [notice] Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.588 [notice] Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.588 [notice] Extended OR listener listening on port 33679.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28063]: Jul 19 14:32:24.588 [notice] Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:33679
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Extended OR listener listening on port 33679.
Jul 19 14:32:24 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:33679
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/share/tor/geoip.
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/share/tor/geoip6.
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now.
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge 9F19251CEE17B1E05084898D164F0544CCB095DD'
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Your Tor bridge's hashed identity key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge E4AF099DA5946A6D6EA65DC55B517D3F9B12D0ED'
Jul 19 14:32:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Starting with guard context "default"
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Signaled readiness to systemd
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Server managed proxy encountered a method error. (obfs4 listen tcp 0.0.0.0:443: bind: permission denied)
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Managed proxy at '/usr/bin/obfs4proxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be destroyed.
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: tor_assertion_failed_(): Bug: ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836: managed_proxy_stdout_callback: Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed; aborting. (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug: Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed in managed_proxy_stdout_callback at ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(log_backtrace_impl+0x45) [0x55812aa84965] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_assertion_failed_+0x94) [0x55812aa7fd24] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(+0xd3f5f) [0x55812a955f5f] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(+0x1da363) [0x55812aa5c363] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.6(+0x1e8f8) [0x7fefe7a128f8] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.6(event_base_loop+0x53f) [0x7fefe7a1333f] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(do_main_loop+0xb4) [0x55812a8f45e4] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_run_main+0x122d) [0x55812a8e18ad] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(tor_main+0x3a) [0x55812a8de9ca] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(main+0x19) [0x55812a8de559] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7fefe613bb97] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28063]: Bug:     /usr/bin/tor(_start+0x2a) [0x55812a8de5aa] (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Jul 19 14:32:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 systemd[1]: tor@default.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 75.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Jul 19 14:32:37.395 [notice] Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Jul 19 14:32:37.395 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Jul 19 14:32:37.395 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Jul 19 14:32:37.395 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Jul 19 14:32:37.399 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28091]: Configuration was valid
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.590 [notice] Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.590 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.590 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.590 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Extended OR listener listening on port 38435.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[28092]: Jul 19 14:32:37.595 [notice] Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:38435
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Extended OR listener listening on port 38435.
Jul 19 14:32:37 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:38435
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/share/tor/geoip.
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/share/tor/geoip6.
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now.
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge 9F19251CEE17B1E05084898D164F0544CCB095DD'
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Your Tor bridge's hashed identity key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge E4AF099DA5946A6D6EA65DC55B517D3F9B12D0ED'
Jul 19 14:32:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28092]: Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting



On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:12 AM Philipp Winter <phw@torproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:50:34PM +1000, Ben Riley wrote:
> Then I saw the above email about being a bridge and thought, fine, I'll
> configure it to be a bridge and help out someone.
> Tried to do it via the docker/script method, but soon realised that was
> outside my skill level (hey stop laughing! :P)

Did you run into any specific issues?  If you had troubles following the
guide, I'm gonna blame the guide.

> Setting ORPort to 443 as suggested.  I forwarded that port on the
> router and then tested it, but it said it was closed. So I thought my
> router was playing up.  I checked a few other ports using online tools
> and a few of them were closed.  I forwarded a new another port to some
> other software on another machine and that worked?!  So I realised the
> ports are open on the router but closed on the ubuntu machine.  I've
> played around with all the settings, changed by torrc file to a really
> basic one of:

To run obfs4 on port 443, you will have to run the following command, to
allow obfs4proxy to bind to port 443:

  sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/obfs4proxy

If you did that already, it would be helpful to see your logs.

Cheers,
Philipp
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