@start9dave thank you. it looks like when I run the command ‘systemctl status tor’ it shows the status as “active (exited)” ← in bold green. is it safe to assume that tor is properly running on my computer and there is some other issue? am I suppose to be downloading tor directly on the start9 device? Asking because I am still running into the same issue with sparrow after confirming Tor is running and clicking the “use proxy” toggle.
Other things I have tried:
-shutting down (and unplugging the start9 server)
-Deleting the electrs app from the start9 server and reinstalling it.
Thank you for any other ideas you have for solving this.
For whatever reason this is not working. I am not seeing a tor folder when following the var/lib/tor path. Since this all was working when I first set up my start9, should I factory reset it? How would I go about doing that? Thank you.
This is not a problem with your server, but a problem with your client’s tor daemon. I will need logs again, as “not working” doesn’t actually tell me anything. Please start a new thread, as this is not relevant to the original post.
@start9dave I wanted to update you on my initial question. I am 99.9% sure that the error (below) I was getting in sparrow was caused by a firewall from my ISP (maybe on the provided router):
SOCKS server general failure. Check if the proxy server is running.
When I tried connecting to sparrow from a different location, there was no error and everything has continued to operate normally. Hope this helps
I was not able to turn it off, but I am not very technical. I switched locations. If I was stuck in that location, My next step would have been buying non-ISP-provided equipment.