Tor browser is black [solved]

[vinoman]

I've installed Tor browser and it opens the connection window in black and then opens Tor browser in black. Doesn't Tor browser work in Debian? I've used it in many other distros and never had this happen.

How do you get Tor to work in Debian?

[Bulkley]

I've installed Tor browser and it opens the connection window in black and then opens Tor browser in black.

How did you install Tor? It works very well for me. I downloaded Tor from here and run it as an appimage.

[vinoman]

That's where I downloaded from. Don't remember if I saw appimage after extracting file.

[stevepusser]

I get the same thing at random times in the last couple weeks with the version installed and updated with tor-browser-launcher, but a reboot makes it work correctly. Annoying, yes. I'm betting on a bug in the browser itself.

This is on the XFCE 4.14 desktop on MX Linux. Switching compositors off, or from Compton to XFCE's, makes no difference.

[vinoman]

I've downloaded the file and extracted and every file I click on none open tor. I've installed it many times but for some reason I can't get it to work in Debian. Why should it be different?

[Bulkley]

Could it be a Buster problem? I'm running Stretch and Tor works perfectly.

[vinoman]

should I add these lines to sources.list

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You need to add the following entries to /etc/apt/sources.list or a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/:

    deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main
    deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main

Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages by running the following commands at your command prompt:

    # curl https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --import
    # gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add -

We provide a Debian package to help you keep our signing key current. It is recommended you use it. Install it with the following commands:

    # apt update
    # apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

from: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

[stevepusser]

I never saw the black screen issue in Stretch, but this is also a newer version of the browser, so you really can't pin it down, unless Stretch users still never see it. Anyone?

I would recommend that you install torbrowser-launcher from buster-backports--just installing and running that will install the browser in your home folder, and it will handle its own updates from there automatically.

[vinoman]

I have backports in sources .list

It's installed but it opens black!

I have Tor installed on ssd of MX Linux and Manjaro and they both have the download extracted and when you open the download folder which has a Tor folder and a desktop browser icon that you click on and Tor opens. Why can't it work in Debian?

[stevepusser]

Are you using similar versions of desktops on Debian and MX Linux? MX 19 is the Buster-based version.

[vinoman]

Are you using similar versions of desktops on Debian and MX Linux? MX 19 is the Buster-based version.

Debian is Gnome and MX 19 is Xfce

[reinob]

Just for the record:

I'm using buster, with lxqt and tor browser downloaded directly from https://www.torproject.org/download/
(just unpack it somewhere in your home folder) and it works perfectly.

[vinoman]

Just for the record:

I'm using buster, with lxqt and tor browser downloaded directly from https://www.torproject.org/download/
(just unpack it somewhere in your home folder) and it works perfectly.

That's how I installed it. but for some reason it doesn't work with Debian on my pc. Don't really use it much, it needed I'll use another distro.

Would like to get it to work though...

[stevepusser]

Just for the record:

I'm using buster, with lxqt and tor browser downloaded directly from https://www.torproject.org/download/
(just unpack it somewhere in your home folder) and it works perfectly.

As far as I know, that's also what torbrowser-launcher does--it just automates the process.

[sunrat]

There was a bug, should be fixed now.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=942901
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser ... r/pull/426
https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=7810.0

But also:- https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser ... issues/443