Tor / Port 9050

[Grizzly]

18 January 2020  at 12:13, Colin Law wrote:
Re: Tor / Port 9050 (at least in part)

>On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 12:10, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Having a problem, Tor used to run fine, then it stopped saying it was already
>> running, even after a cold reset, uninstalled & purged, reinstalled, started
>> from terminal, still claims "port 127.0.0.1:9050 is in use or Tor is already
>> running
>>
>> Any pointers from someone on Bionic who is running Tor?
>>
>> Failing that ho wcan I check what/if port 9050 is been used
>
>I would have thought that your-favourite-search-engine would have
>found that fairly easily
>lsof -i :9050

DuckDuck did find a command

netstat -tulnp | grep 9050

Closed that, then torbrowser-launcher worked

lets see how long that lasts

thanks