STARTOS node unresponsive, after reboot bitcoin won't sync (error 135) and TOR freezes at 95%

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OS logs below, you can see when I click START on bitcoin and the problem starts looping over and over!

025-12-03T23:28:17+00:00 2025-12-03T23:28:17.468099Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:28:32+00:00 2025-12-03T23:28:32.519610Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:28:47+00:00 2025-12-03T23:28:47.571852Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:29:02+00:00 2025-12-03T23:29:02.618189Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:29:17+00:00 2025-12-03T23:29:17.663405Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:29:32+00:00 2025-12-03T23:29:32.708517Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:29:47+00:00 2025-12-03T23:29:47.766428Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:30:02+00:00 2025-12-03T23:30:02.849316Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:30:17+00:00 2025-12-03T23:30:17.896275Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:30:32+00:00 2025-12-03T23:30:32.945641Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:30:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:30:48.032639Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:31:03+00:00 2025-12-03T23:31:03.083164Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:31:18+00:00 2025-12-03T23:31:18.162856Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:31:33+00:00 2025-12-03T23:31:33.219756Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:31:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:31:48.264552Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:32:03+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:03.308467Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:32:18+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:18.362396Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:32:28+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:28.772943Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:32:33+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:33.431497Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:32:46+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:46.640493Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:32:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:32:48.474905Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:33:03+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:03.556039Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:33:04+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:04.381577Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:06.504806Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Our circuit 0 (id: 2315) died due to an invalid selected path, purpose Hidden service: Uploading HS descriptor. This may be a torrc configuration issue, or a bug.: Restarting tor
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:06.504869Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 0: Our circuit 0 (id: 2315) died due to an invalid selected path, purpose Hidden service: Uploading HS descriptor. This may be a torrc configuration issue, or a bug.
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 Location:
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:604
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-12-03T23:33:06+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }
2025-12-03T23:33:08+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:08.605267Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started
2025-12-03T23:33:18+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:18.598315Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:33:22+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:22.310234Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:33:33+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:33.655771Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:40.186620Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:40.978288Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%: Restarting tor
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:40.978358Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 0: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 Location:
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:354
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-12-03T23:33:40+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }
2025-12-03T23:33:43+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:43.079891Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started
2025-12-03T23:33:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:48.732171Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr
2025-12-03T23:33:58+00:00 2025-12-03T23:33:58.244747Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:34:03+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:03.813169Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:15.153755Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%: Restarting tor
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:15.153793Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 0: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 Location:
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:354
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }

2025-12-03T23:34:15+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:15.871297Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:34:17+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:17.264962Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started

2025-12-03T23:34:18+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:18.890875Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:34:33+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:33.486938Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135
2025-12-03T23:34:33+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:33.970340Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:48.326436Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%: Restarting tor
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:48.326480Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 0: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 Location:
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:354
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-12-03T23:34:48+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }

2025-12-03T23:34:49+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:49.051723Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:34:50+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:50.387424Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started

2025-12-03T23:34:51+00:00 2025-12-03T23:34:51.153862Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:35:04+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:04.184651Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:35:08+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:08.893799Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:35:19+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:19.248091Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:22.458043Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%: Restarting tor
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:22.458107Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 0: Tor stuck bootstrapping at 95%
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 Location:
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:354
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }

2025-12-03T23:35:24+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:24.563354Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started

2025-12-03T23:35:26+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:26.576866Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:35:34+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:34.323855Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2025-12-03T23:35:44+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:44.251872Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 135

2025-12-03T23:35:49+00:00 2025-12-03T23:35:49.371507Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of nostr

2

If your server’s tor connection is not bootstrapping all the way to 100% and remaining stable, you can reset the connection by going to:

System->Manage->Experimental Features->Reset Tor

Try to do this without selecting “Wipe State” first.

You can then check in the Tor logs if the connection is bootstrapping all the way up to 100% and remaining stable. If not, then try again and select “Wipe State”.

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I notice a 135 exit code on Bitcoin, it’s probably Bitcoin crashing Tor, rather than Tor crashing Bitcoin.

Bitcoin logs (Services → Bitcoin → Logs) would be useful, but I suspect you’d find also a hardware related error in the Kernel logs (System → Kernel Logs).