Thanks for the precise help, Roger. some relies interleaved:

On 4/30/2016 7:41:48 PM, Roger Dingledine (arma@mit.edu) wrote:

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On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 02:51:27PM +0000, eliaz wrote: I'm having crashes when restarting tor. I get the error message "Tor unexpectedly exited.... Send a copy of Your Tor Log to the support team." So, what's the address?

We have alas stopped operating the support team, since we didn't have funding to keep it going, and it was being overwhelmed by users who wanted the same things over and over. We've instead been focusing on cleaning up our documentation, improving user experience, etc in hopes that in the future we'll have fewer users who think contacting the support desk is the right first move.

I've opened https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18939 so we can confuse fewer users with that phrase.

Aha, that must be why previous requests to rt.torproject.org went unanswered? Water over the dam...

In your case, my guess is that you added something to your torrc file, which caused your Tor to fail when it restarted it. Tor Browser isn't really meant to be used along with the phrase "when restarting Tor", so I'm afraid you are in expert territory. :)

Of course. I'd think it would be useful to know how if possible to do this for those who run torbrowser only on windows.

Also, Tor Browser isn't a relay by default, and it's a poor way to operate a relay.

Who would know? It's nowhere stated in the documentation...

You'll do much better with a Tor package like the debian package: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian

I'm running debian already as a VM, & running tails off a usb stick so I can know how to help those who need that. The 24/7 low-power rig on which I currently run bridges runs on an old Intel Atom D2550 processor which doesn't accept graphical UI linux & I haven't gotten around to looking into command-line versions. If anyone can suggest one I'd appreciate it.

And lastly, https://www.torproject.org/about/contact#support has some suggestions for how to find help.

Did that, also will follow Moritz's suggestions re IRC & stackexchange. Really, running bridges intelligently & learning what's going on is not straightforward at all. I keep at it out of perversity. - eliaz