Tor browser no connection with bridges

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  • Tor Browser version -14.0.1
  • Tor Browser Security Level -default
  • Step by step…

The browser doesn’t connect to the internet with all bridges
When i’m ordering a new bridge i get always the same capture: “freedom”.
Is it right?
Anyway. To get connected with the net I have to shutsown tor with bridges
Additionally I have to kill the process in htop. If not , my cpu 's on laptop work with frequenzy 100%. After that i can start the browser without bridges and get connected.
I have installed a new tor for 2 days ago.
I dont understand how to send a screenshot here.

  • What country/region are you in? obfs4 bridges got from BridgesDB or within the browser may not work in certain regions. (the freedom captcha is probably the same everywhere)
  • Try contacting frontdesk@torproject.org to get some bridges. Such bridges are distributed less widely and thus are less likely to get blocked.

4 posts were split to a new topic: Cannot connect to Tor

I cant force you to understand what i’m writing about.
It doesn’t work.

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Subject: [Tor Project Forum] [Support/Tor Browser Desktop] Tor browser
no connection with bridges
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:38:16 +0000
From: TorDavid via Tor Project Forum noreply@forum.torproject.org
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[TorDavid] TorDavid https://forum.torproject.org/u/tordavid
November 4

试试雪花Try snowflake. It might work.
试试伪装流量Try meek-azure. It always work but it is slow.


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Hello again,

  • What country/region are you in? obfs4 bridges got from BridgesDB or
    within the browser may not work in certain regions. (the freedom
    captcha is probably the same everywhere)

-Norway

I dont think other kind of bridges solve the problem.
I get get connection to the net without bridges.

With bridges i dont. But my cpu are running with full frequency.
They dont stop after i shut down the browser.
I have to kill the process in htop directly.

see the screenshot

Hans Steltner

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Subject: [Tor Project Forum] [Support/Tor Browser Desktop] Tor browser
no connection with bridges
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:25:13 +0000
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[TorDavid] TorDavid https://forum.torproject.org/u/tordavid
November 1

* What country/region are you in? obfs4 bridges got from BridgesDB or
  within the browser may not work in certain regions. (the freedom
  captcha is probably the same everywhere)
* Try contacting frontdesk@torproject.org
  <mailto:frontdesk@torproject.org> to get some bridges. Such bridges
  are distributed less widely and thus are less likely to get blocked.

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(attachments)

Can you share your Tor logs?

  • To copy your Tor logs on Tor Browser Desktop, navigate to the hamburger menu (“≡”), then click on “Settings”, and finally on “Connection” in the side bar. At the bottom of the page, next to the “View the Tor logs” text, click the button “View Logs…”. Please copy all of the lines and share with us here.

When i’m ordering a new bridge i get always the same capture: “freedom”.

This is part of deprecating Captcha on our bridges website. Captchas are problematic for many users and easy for censors to block.
You can find relevant discussion on these tickets, Deprecate captcha moat (#173) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / rdsys · GitLab
For temporary static Captcha in Tor Browser, Deprecate moat CAPTCHAs (#42086) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab

How are you installing Tor Browser? Have you followed the steps mentioned in INSTALLATION | Tor Project | Tor Browser Manual or ?

The screenshot from htop doesn’t particularly reflect that the tor process or Tor Browser is responsible for the high CPU usage.

Thank you.

I’ll try this on tomorrow.

H.

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Subject: [Tor Project Forum] [In your language] Cannot connect to Tor
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:07:51 +0000
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[ebanam] ebanam https://forum.torproject.org/u/ebanam
November 5

 EYU36hb:

 >2024-11-03 18:05:49.375 [ERR] Managed proxy
 "TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\lyrebird.exe": Error parsing args:|

Please check that the bridge lines you received are pasted one by one
each in one single line.

请检查您收到的桥接线路是否逐一粘贴在一行中。

/(text translated by DeepL https://www.deepl.com)/

obfs4 : cert= iat-mode=0|

webtunnel url=|


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Hello,

I’ve tried to copy and paste these two one after another
in separate lines.

Before i did the same procedure with the bridges from your mail 03.11.24

It doesn’t work. After I press the button “Next” to paste the
bridges, I get a fail return because of not properly formatted input.

Also the cpu’s running with high frequencies again. A lot of memory is
busy or reserved.

Hans

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Subject: [Tor Project Forum] [Support/Tor Browser Desktop] Tor browser
no connection with bridges
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:38:16 +0000
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[TorDavid] TorDavid https://forum.torproject.org/u/tordavid
November 4

试试雪花Try snowflake. It might work.
试试伪装流量Try meek-azure. It always work but it is slow.


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Here is the log file.

-Tor Browser shows “connect” in settings but doesn’t connect
whether with bridges nor without them.
-I canot paste bridges. It is rejected because “fail formatted”.
-High frequecy of cpus.

2024-11-12 10:46:23.829 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not
make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all
existing connections.
2024-11-12 10:46:23.846 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
2024-11-12 10:46:23.847 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection
(ready) on 127.0.0.1:9150
2024-11-12 10:46:42.888 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:42.896 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:42.896 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:45.294 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:45.295 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:45.295 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:52.563 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:52.563 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:52.564 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:46:52.564 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:55:31.491 [NOTICE] Switching to guard context “default”
(was using “bridges”)
2024-11-12 10:55:32.400 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a
relay
2024-11-12 10:55:32.677 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected
to a relay
2024-11-12 10:55:33.274 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake):
Handshaking with a relay
2024-11-12 10:55:34.102 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done):
Handshake with a relay done
2024-11-12 10:55:34.105 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 20% (onehop_create):
Establishing an encrypted directory connection
2024-11-12 10:55:34.474 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 25% (requesting_status):
Asking for networkstatus consensus
2024-11-12 10:55:34.908 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 30% (loading_status):
Loading networkstatus consensus
2024-11-12 10:55:38.061 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo):
Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
2024-11-12 10:55:38.848 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 80% (ap_conn): Connecting
to a relay to build circuits
2024-11-12 10:55:38.849 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done):
Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
2024-11-12 10:55:38.850 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create):
Establishing a Tor circuit
2024-11-12 10:55:40.775 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done
2024-11-12 10:58:52.956 [NOTICE] Switching to guard context “bridges”
(was using “default”)
2024-11-12 10:58:53.858 [NOTICE] Delaying directory fetches: No running
bridges
2024-11-12 10:58:58.048 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 10:58:59.874 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:02.927 [NOTICE] Switching to guard context “default”
(was using “bridges”)
2024-11-12 11:02:15.524 [NOTICE] Switching to guard context “bridges”
(was using “default”)
2024-11-12 11:02:16.189 [NOTICE] Delaying directory fetches: No running
bridges
2024-11-12 11:02:23.639 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:29.471 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:29.471 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:32.046 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:32.046 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:02:32.046 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:04:45.111 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:06:20.355 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:08:32.803 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:08:35.207 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:08:35.207 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.
2024-11-12 11:11:04.750 [NOTICE] Application request when we haven’t
used client functionality lately. Optimistically trying known bridges again.

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Subject: [Tor Project Forum] [PM] RE: Tor更新后无法联网,有没有解决办法?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:26:42 +0000
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[ebanam] ebanam https://forum.torproject.org/u/ebanam
November 11

Hi @karascho https://forum.torproject.org/u/karascho,

This is the Forum thread for the issue you reported,

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-no-connection-with-bridges/15569.

Please open the link on the browser (and not in the mailing-list mode).

 karascho:

 Additionally: How can I send logfiles from tor?

To copy your Tor logs on Tor Browser Desktop, navigate to the hamburger
menu (“≡”), then click on “Settings”, and finally on “Connection” in the
side bar. At the bottom of the page, next to the “View the Tor logs”
text, click the button “View Logs…”. Please copy all of the lines and share.


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How do I send the tor log file from my account.
I did it now per mail.

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[ebanam] ebanam https://forum.torproject.org/u/ebanam
November 11

Hi @karascho https://forum.torproject.org/u/karascho,

This is the Forum thread for the issue you reported,

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-no-connection-with-bridges/15569.

Please open the link on the browser (and not in the mailing-list mode).

 karascho:

 Additionally: How can I send logfiles from tor?

To copy your Tor logs on Tor Browser Desktop, navigate to the hamburger
menu (“≡”), then click on “Settings”, and finally on “Connection” in the
side bar. At the bottom of the page, next to the “View the Tor logs”
text, click the button “View Logs…”. Please copy all of the lines and share.


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There is also the same issue with Brave browser which I use normally.
The connection stops if I use a private window with tor.
The same is true for used bridges.

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Subject: Additionally Tor log again-------Fwd: [Tor Project Forum] [PM]
RE: Tor更新后无法联网,有没有解决办法?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:34:49 +0100
From: Hans-N heidernein@gmail.com
To: ebanam via Tor Project Forum
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How do I send the tor log file from my account.
I did it now per mail.

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:26:42 +0000
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[ebanam] ebanam https://forum.torproject.org/u/ebanam
November 11

Hi @karascho https://forum.torproject.org/u/karascho,

This is the Forum thread for the issue you reported,

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-no-connection-with-bridges/15569.

Please open the link on the browser (and not in the mailing-list mode).

 karascho:

 Additionally: How can I send logfiles from tor?

To copy your Tor logs on Tor Browser Desktop, navigate to the hamburger
menu (“≡”), then click on “Settings”, and finally on “Connection” in the
side bar. At the bottom of the page, next to the “View the Tor logs”
text, click the button “View Logs…”. Please copy all of the lines and share.


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The redirection of tor browser to its german edition happens with all of
the other browser on my pc inclusive links 2 and lynx.

Hans

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Forum] [PM] RE: Tor更新后无法联网,有没有解决办法?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:34:42 +0100
From: Hans-N heidernein@gmail.com
To: ebanam via Tor Project Forum
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There is also the same issue with Brave browser which I use normally.
The connection stops if I use a private window with tor.
The same is true for used bridges.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Additionally Tor log again-------Fwd: [Tor Project Forum] [PM]
RE: Tor更新后无法联网,有没有解决办法?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:34:49 +0100
From: Hans-N heidernein@gmail.com
To: ebanam via Tor Project Forum
incoming+4f92afb1d86ac58ab2cca63f0cfe401a@forum.torproject.org

How do I send the tor log file from my account.
I did it now per mail.

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:26:42 +0000
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[ebanam] ebanam https://forum.torproject.org/u/ebanam
November 11

Hi @karascho https://forum.torproject.org/u/karascho,

This is the Forum thread for the issue you reported,

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-no-connection-with-bridges/15569.

Please open the link on the browser (and not in the mailing-list mode).

 karascho:

 Additionally: How can I send logfiles from tor?

To copy your Tor logs on Tor Browser Desktop, navigate to the hamburger
menu (“≡”), then click on “Settings”, and finally on “Connection” in the
side bar. At the bottom of the page, next to the “View the Tor logs”
text, click the button “View Logs…”. Please copy all of the lines and share.


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From the Tor logs you have shared, it seems Tor bootstrapped just fine.