I'm on windows xp, by the way.

I've never had a problem running tor until now. For some reason, it won't connect. I'm using Vidalia, and it just seems to hang whenever I try connecting.

Here's what my message log says:
Jan 10 21:41:03.777 [Notice] Tor v0.2.0.32 (r17346). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Windows XP Service Pack 2 [workstation] {terminal services, single user})
Jan 10 21:41:03.996 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.7-stable using method win32. Good.
Jan 10 21:41:03.996 [Notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 10 21:41:03.996 [Notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Jan 10 21:45:50.731 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)


My connections keep failing no matter what. I haven't changed any settings, and my firewall is off, along with my ports forwarded on my router. Is it possible that my ISP(at&t) has blocked tor?

That doesn't look like a problem on your end. If you can't get any connections at all, you can't get to the directory server; otherwise, you probably just can't get to a node.

Your ISP could be blocking Tor -- see if you can netcat to some of the directory servers. I doubt they'd be doing that (it'd be a first IIRC) but they could.

I'm not really sure how to do what you said with netcat. I really only know how to do a few basic things with netcat, like transferring files and transmitting text.

I made a screencap of my situation, just in case I'm missing something obvious.
http://i43.tinypic.com/ac7bbr.jpg

It's like I'm connected, but at the same time I'm not. All of my connections keep failing.

Are you running an Ubuntu theme on XP? That's ridiculous.

Up the LogLevel to info and run it again.

I don't think it's ridiculous. It makes it easier to switch between windows and ubuntu. Besides, it's a nice change from Luna. I really hate Luna.

I changed the log level to info and nothing different happened. I got an identical log. I also tried using the public bridges several times, but that didn't work either. I don't want to have to bother using bridges anyway.

I mean ridiculous in a "whoa, ridiculous" way.


Set it higher, I think I forgot what's going on with info/etc. Try warning or debug. Debug is everything, of course.

You could also turn off log scrubbing to see what's being blocked.

Oh I see. :p

Well I somehow mysteriously got tor to finally work. I had previously reinstalled Vidalia, but that solved nothing. This time I actually installed an older version of Vidalia from 2007 to see if that would make a difference,
but to no avail. Then I reinstalled the new version of Vidalia and now it works! Maybe it fixed some crappy config file or something. I still don't get it though. If it ends up not working again, I'll post back here.
Thanks Prometheum!