[SOLVED] torsocks not working properly

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 04:18 AM

Hi altogether,

I have installed torsocks according to the readme-file and the description on page https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...ks-2-1.378057/ . I got the installation file and did the following:

Code:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If you are compiling it from the git repository, run ./autogen.sh before the
configure script.

The installation went well and torsocks is now installed.

Yet when trying to get it to run (e.g.) with

Code:

torsocks rhythmbox

it starts rhythmbox alright but it can´t establish an internet connection.
So I cannot play any radio stations.

The terminal says:

Code:

(rhythmbox:32024): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files
1528636178 PERROR torsocks[32024]: socks5 libc connect: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)

Code:

torsocks -P 9150 rhythmbox

doesn´t work either.

When typing

Code:

torsocks firefox

firefox doesn´t seem to start in the first place. Yet when looking at "ps" firefox appears in the list. Strange!

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?

Tnx a lot in advance.

Greetings.
Rosika

Turbocapitalist · 06-12-2018, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosika

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?

Well, to me it looks like you have missed the package manager. The correct way to add torsocks would be to install it from the repositories using the distro's official package management system. That will avoid a lot of trouble and mess. Which distro, including version, do you have?

Failing that, a distant second best way would be to roll torsocks into a package and then install it from that. Again that depends on which version of which distro you have. I would recommend the first way however.

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 06:01 AM

Hi,

tnx for your answer.
Indeed, I didn´t install torsocks via apt because when doing so I would also get tor and tor-geoipdb automatically.
Yet I don´t want to install tor via apt because I´ve already got the standalone tor-version (Tor-Browser-Bundle), which doesn´t require installation and can be be put on a USB-stick.

Ubuntuusers.de says it´s the variant recommended by the Tor-developers (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Tor/Inst...le-Webdownload).
So I chose this one.

Are you saying that torsocks requires tor to be installed on the system?
Then why would the installation-description of torsocks be necessary? ----> https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks

Anyhow here´s additional info as to my system:

- Lubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, 64 bit
- kernel: 4.4.0-128-generic #154
- torsocks-version: Torsocks 2.2.0

Turbocapitalist · 06-12-2018, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosika

Yet I don´t want to install tor via apt because ...

Ok, since you have Lubuntu, you can install it via dpkg instead -- after you roll your own package. If you use a bare 'make all && sudo make install' approach, you will eventually mess up your system enough that a fresh re-installatino of the whole OS is needed. Start with these older articles as background:

https://debian-administration.org/ar...ackages_part_1

https://debian-administration.org/ar...ackages_part_2

Then walk through the steps here:

https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

Once you have a .deb package, you can add it (or remove it) with dpkg.

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 06:19 AM

On Mint 19, using Ubuntu 18.04's package base, apt show torsocks indicates that torsocks does not depend on the tor package, it only recommends it. Its only dependency is libc6. Unless you have your apt system set up to install recommended packages, it shouldn't automatically install tor, on an 18.04 system anyway.

What does apt show torsocks show on your 16.04 system?

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 06:45 AM

Hi hydrurga,

tnx.
I checked that with me as well. You´re right.

apt show torsocks gives me the same results you posted.

Quote:

Unless you have your apt system set up to install recommended packages [...]

That´s probably it.

O.K., I´m a bit confused now.
As already mentioned I installed torsocks that way:

Code:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Did I do something wrong here?
Because Turbocapitalist pointed out:

Quote:

If you use a bare 'make all && sudo make install' approach, you will eventually mess up your system enough that a fresh re-installatino of the whole OS is needed.

Should I un-install it?

P.S.:

libc6 is installed :
libc6:amd64, libc6:i386, libc6-dev:amd64

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 06:48 AM

For the moment, let's have a look to see if apt is set up to automatically install recommended packages or not:

Code:

apt-config dump | grep Recommends

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 06:55 AM

Yeah, it seems that way:

Code:

APT::Install-Recommends "true";

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 07:04 AM

Indeed. I would recommend against it as, imo, only dependencies should be auto installed.

Can you bear with me a moment while we figure out why that is the case for your particular system?

Code:

ls -la /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 07:12 AM

Tnx.
Here are my results:

Code:

 ls -la /etc/apt/apt.conf.d 
insgesamt 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 11:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mär 11  2017 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49 Jul 20  2016 00aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   40 Jul 20  2016 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  769 Apr 14  2016 01autoremove
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2759 Jun 12 11:33 01autoremove-kernels
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   42 Apr 14  2016 01-vendor-ubuntu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  168 Dez  8  2016 10periodic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  108 Apr 12  2016 15update-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   85 Apr 12  2016 20archive
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  243 Dez 16  2009 20dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  182 Nov 10  2015 70debconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   32 Jun 10 13:55 99synaptic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  305 Apr 12  2016 99update-notifier

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 07:18 AM

Thanks. Ok, let's add another config file to the mix, if you want to switch off the auto installation of recommended packages:

*** Note that this advice has now been superseded - see later in this thread ***

Code:

sudo cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01norecommend << EOF
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
EOF

Then run the command in post #7 again to confirm that it has taken hold.

Also, let's check, just in case, what your equivalent setting for Suggests is:

Code:

apt-config dump | grep Suggests

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 07:30 AM

Well, the first one didn´t work:

Code:

rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e:~$ sudo cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01norecommend << EOF
> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
> EOF
bash: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01norecommend: Keine Berechtigung

Bash says I don´t have the permission to do that. My password isn´t queried.

The second one:

Code:

rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e:~$ apt-config dump | grep Suggests
APT::Install-Suggests "0";

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 07:37 AM

Ok, my apologies.

Before that command, issue a sudo su command first.

For the command itself, don't use sudo.

Then after the command, issue an exit command.

That will temporarily give you the root priviledges you need to create that file.

Rosika · 06-12-2018, 07:47 AM

Tnx.
This time it worked.
But still:

Code:

rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~> apt-config dump | grep Recommends
APT::Install-Recommends "true";

hydrurga · 06-12-2018, 07:57 AM

What fun. Some other config option must be taking precedence, unless there's some cacheing of config options going on. We can sort that out later, but if you want, let's try installing the repo version of torsocks (we can use the --no-install-recommends command line option). It's not guaranteed to work any better than the version you manually built, but it's worth trying.

First of all though, you need to uninstall the version you manually installed. Does its README file, or other documentation, advise as to how it can be uninstalled?

By the way, if anyone reading this wonders why the original sudo cat command didn't work: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...vim-works-fine - I had no idea. I do now.