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  • Re: [gentoo-user] tor-browser does not start any more

    From Poncho@21:1/5 to gevisz on Sun Nov 28 12:30:02 2021
    On 28.11.21 12:09, gevisz wrote:
    I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its
    official site does not start any more. :(
    However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous updates. Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this respect.


    do you get any error message if you launch torbrowser from your terminal?

    just a guess... but you probably need to enable wayland for x11-libs/gtk+:3

    see
    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40693

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  • From gevisz@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 28 12:20:01 2021
    I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its
    official site does not start any more. :(
    However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous updates. Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this respect.

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  • From Steve Freeman@21:1/5 to gevisz on Sun Nov 28 13:10:01 2021
    On 2021-11-28 05:09, gevisz wrote:
    I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its
    official site does not start any more. :(
    However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous
    updates.
    Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this
    respect.

    I has something to do with Wayland dependencies in the latest Firefox.
    Seems to affect Gentoo and Slackware the most. I cannot run the latest
    11.0.1. I am not using Wayland. I've rolled back to version 10.5.6 in
    the meantime.

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40693

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  • From Steve Freeman@21:1/5 to Poncho on Sun Nov 28 13:50:03 2021
    On 2021-11-28 05:20, Poncho wrote:
    On 28.11.21 12:09, gevisz wrote:
    I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its
    official site does not start any more. :(
    However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous
    updates.
    Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this
    respect.


    do you get any error message if you launch torbrowser from your
    terminal?

    just a guess... but you probably need to enable wayland for
    x11-libs/gtk+:3

    see
    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40693

    Sorry, Poncho. I didn't see your message when I replied.

    However your solution works for me. I figured that getting wayland
    support would have required a lot more rebuilding, or I would have tried
    it days ago. I switched on the wayland flag for gtk+ (portage required
    it for mesa as well) and I was good to go.

    Thanks much.

    -Steve Freeman

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  • From gevisz@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 29 19:20:02 2021
    вс, 28 нояб. 2021 г. в 13:20, Poncho <poncho@spahan.ch>:

    On 28.11.21 12:09, gevisz wrote:
    I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its
    official site does not start any more. :(
    However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous updates. Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this respect.


    do you get any error message if you launch torbrowser from your terminal?

    After "launching" the tor-browser in the terminal, I get only the
    return value 255 instead of 0.

    just a guess... but you probably need to enable wayland for x11-libs/gtk+:3

    Yes, Wayland is completely disabled in my system as I use Awesome.

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40693

    Thank you.

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