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Issue created Oct 10, 2022 by sajolida@sajolidaMaintainer

Tor bootstrap with some obfs4 bridges gets stuck, solved by restarting Tor Connection

During #18762 (closed), 3 out of 4 participants had a progress bar that was suuuuuuper slow when connecting to Tor using a well-working bridge.

After several minutes, I shut down Tor Connection, restarted it and got connected to Tor within seconds.

I can share footage if needed.

Also, even connecting to Tor without bridges was much slower than I would have expected. The connection at the hotel was otherwise super fast and people could download a full USB image of Tails within 10 minutes or so.

Also reported in "Tor Connection obfs4 issue" on tails-bugs@ with screenshots. The reporter includes interesting information about how Onion Circuits behaves meanwhile:

  1. Tor Connection successfully gets to the point of finding the bridge's serial number.
  2. Tor Connection successfully resolves the bridge's name.
  3. The bridge's name disappears from Onion Circuits. If I let it stay in that state, Tor Connection waits a long time and never connects.
  4. I close Tor Connection, telling it to Close and Lose Progress.
  5. I reopen Tor Connection, and it finds the bridge and builds circuits very quickly.
  • wb:353138ac731b95488e15b65c642c278c
  • wb:5bd9e7634828408a490821f2c2165c05
Edited Nov 08, 2022 by sajolida
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