I’m having an insanely frustrating problem. I have no router right now, and am at the mercy of the ISP gateway, and they don’t give permission to port 9050. Starting Tor Browser, I instantly get closed unexpectedly/error, with no log message whatsoever. But running tor.exe manually I saw the problem.
I changed torrc SOCKS port to 443 and it works, tor.exe is starting. BUT, the actual browser will not start, it gives the same unexpected error. Tor service actually works though, if I enter the local proxy manually into my standard browser it reaches onion links. But that is not really a solution. I have tried looking through prefs.js and sqlite files but could not find any option for either proxy settings or ‘9050’. Can I change the proxy port manually without starting TorBrowser/FF?
(A completely fresh bundle will not start either)
Edit: tor.exe output
Feb 12 00:51:09.042 [notice] Tor 0.4.2.5 (git-bede4ea1008920d8) running on Windows 8 [or later] with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma N/A, and Libzstd N/A.
Feb 12 00:51:09.043 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Feb 12 00:51:09.052 [notice] Configuration file "xxx" not present, using reasonable defaults.
Feb 12 00:51:09.052 [warn] Path for GeoIPFile (<default>) is relative and will resolve to xxx. Is this what you wanted?
Feb 12 00:51:09.052 [warn] Path for GeoIPv6File (<default>) is relative and will resolve to xxx. Is this what you wanted?
Feb 12 00:51:09.053 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Feb 12 00:51:09.053 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Permission denied [WSAEACCES ]
Feb 12 00:51:09.053 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Feb 12 00:51:09.053 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
Now with torrc and SocksPort 443:
Feb 12 00:53:01.083 [notice] Tor 0.4.2.5 (git-bede4ea1008920d8) running on Windows 8 [or later] with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma N/A, and Libzstd N/A.
Feb 12 00:53:01.084 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Feb 12 00:53:01.094 [notice] Read configuration file "xxx".
Feb 12 00:53:01.094 [warn] Skipping obsolete configuration option "SocksListenAddress".
Feb 12 00:53:01.099 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:443
Feb 12 00:53:01.099 [notice] Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:443
Feb 12 00:53:01.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file xxx.
Feb 12 00:53:01.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file xxx.
Feb 12 00:53:01.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting
Feb 12 00:53:03.000 [warn] Your configuration excludes 99% of all possible guards. That's likely to make you stand out from the rest of the world.
Feb 12 00:53:03.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "restricted"
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 3% (conn_proxy): Connecting to proxy
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 4% (conn_done_proxy): Connected to proxy
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
Feb 12 00:53:04.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
Feb 12 00:53:05.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done
Resource Manager says port 9050 is not in use, Firewall is open. Ultimately I don’t think the problem is in my computer