Hello Roger, thanks for your helpful tip.
On 12/14/21 12:14 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
My first thought is that somehow during boot Tor fails to start. For example, if at that point in the boot process there is no network, maybe Tor aborts even before it gets to the point of writing anything in its logs. We've definitely had bugs like that over the years.
this was the one really helpful tip.
Any idea how to troubleshoot this and what to look for?
Tor will write to stdout before it switches over to writing to the logs. So whatever init process is starting Tor can see that output. How exactly to get at it... sounds like an adventure diving into how systemd works.:)
And then the tip that it writes to stdout and might be some other output besides from unit "tor".
I see the problem now, and I think it is like you guessed the network is not ready at that time.
Thanks, will check further.
yl