How to TOR with vidalia...??

[kiraitachi]

After several hours of reading gettint info trying stuff I gave up...cant get to set this up...I get it done once or twice then goes crazy when I want to chang it to an US ip adress or to an UK ip adress ...any help?? plz

LOG

Jan 26 19:34:16.446 [Notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-73ff13ab3cc9570d). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64)
Jan 26 19:34:16.446 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.12-stable using method epoll. Good.
Jan 26 19:34:16.446 [Notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 26 19:34:16.446 [Notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Jan 26 19:34:16.446 [Warning] Permissions on directory /var/run/tor are too permissive.
Jan 26 19:34:16.447 [Warning] Before Tor can create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control.authcookie", the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only by the user account that is running Tor. (On some Unix systems, anybody who can list a socket can conect to it, so Tor is being careful.)
Jan 26 19:34:16.447 [Notice] Closing partially-constructed listener Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 26 19:34:16.448 [Notice] Closing partially-constructed listener Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Jan 26 19:34:16.448 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Jan 26 19:34:16.449 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

[kiraitachi]

It actually works if I run it from my terminal....wich is weird....but not from vidalia....lol, its running on unix domain socket (controlsocket), and my Firefox config options are

Manual proxy

Socks Hosts: 127.0.0.1 port: 9051

[kiraitachi]

knock knock?

[SecretCode]

hello?

It doesn't look like anyone here is au fait with tor and vidalia. Maybe worth trying another forum. linuxquestions.org is quite active ...

[perspectoff]

My installation doesn't go to /var/lib/tor. I think tor can be installed for only one user or as root. The old installations all installed as root, and I think only the new installations enable you to install for a single user. This seems to be a permissions problem. The answer seems to be in the error code -- the permissions of the folder must be those of the user which will run tor.