Need help with tor relay install

Troubleshooting
1

Hello,

I installed the tor relay via the software menu. How do I correctly configure now my tor browser.

I used

sudo cat /var/lib/tor/fingerprint
Unnamed <FINGERPRINT>

sudo cat /var/lib/tor/pt_state/obfs4_bridgeline.txt
Bridge obfs4 <IP ADDRESS>:<PORT> <FINGERPRINT> cert=lWe4veBEE+i+VA1Lvgv60a38f53cmFlGDQ5nOIY0ga45UZjnjOvEL0r9mRl4xcCGDzrSag iat-mode=0

in the tor browser I configured my bride manually with

obfs4 <IP ADDRESS OF MY DIETPI>:9050  <FINGERPRINT> cert=lWe4veBEE+i+VA1Lvgv60a38f53cmFlGDQ5nOIY0ga45UZjnjOvEL0r9mRl4xcCGDzrSag iat-mode=0

But no connection was possible. any help apprciated

If I go to

https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=

it tells me

no resources for the given id

Error in the tor browser log

general SOCKS server failure
2

Is the tor relay running?

3

Hello,

 tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2023-12-12 07:02:13 CET; 3s ago
    Process: 1776 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 1776 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 4ms
Dez 12 07:02:13 pihole systemd[1]: Starting tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
Dez 12 07:02:13 pihole systemd[1]: Finished tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).

It always exit directly…but why?

I see this warning in the log

 Dec 12 08:28:10.955 [warn] Configuration port ORPort 81 superseded by ORPort [2a02:8070:2482:4560:2c91:65ff:fed9:fc7f]:81
Dec 12 08:28:10.956 [warn] Configuration port ORPort 81 superseded by ORPort 0.0.0.0:81
Dec 12 08:28:10.956 [warn] Your ContactInfo config option is not set. Please strongly consider setting it, so we can contact you if your relay is misconfigured, end-of-life, or something else goes wrong. It is also possible that your relay might get rejected from the network due to a missing valid contact address.
Dec 12 08:28:10.959 [warn] Configuration port ORPort 81 superseded by ORPort [ipv6address]:81
Dec 12 08:28:10.959 [warn] Configuration port ORPort 81 superseded by ORPort 0.0.0.0:81
Dec 12 08:28:10.000 [warn] Your log may contain sensitive information - you're logging more than "notice". Don't log unless it serves an important reason. Overwrite the log afterwards.
4

well the error might be kicking the tor relay out…go into settings and make sure you put in correct address, or change it to a valid one
I always use me@nope.com

5

Can you share journalctl -e -u tor@default and ss -tulpn?

6

I rebooted and now everything is good

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