can't start tor.service

[xkoderx]

Describe the bug
When archtorify script execute, it sets the permissions like in the Wiki Arch

as we can see it gives the correct permissions

, but executing journalctl -xeu tor.service it shows like permission error from systemd tor.service conten

Program error message
systemd tor.service is not running
Screenshots

journalctl -xeu: output

Shell used
zsh

Systems Used

• Arch
• Manjaro

Solution
After thoushands tries
I suggest comment or delete the user line from utils files in /usr/share/archtorify/data/tor.service. As these files are copied every execute archtorify
[Service]
User=root
Group=root
like that
[Service]
Group=root
idk why but this has been the only method that works on each one of my systems, doing this we can running archtorify like before


as you can see i commented the line and now i made a systemctl daemon-reload and i can start archtorify normally

i want to say i don´t undertand why, as the wiki arch says the contrary , that if you have a error with user in tor you should put the User=Tor value in your tor.service file

[Bill-Joe-Tech]

It looks like the Arch wiki has been updated since the original post removing the section you had a screenshot of.

Without archtorify and only installing tor on a fresh machine, the default working config (shown here: sed -n '11,21p' /lib/systemd/system/tor.service) is listed below:

[Service]
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc --verify-config
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP ${MAINPID}
KillSignal=SIGINT
TimeoutSec=60
Restart=on-failure
WatchdogSec=1m
LimitNOFILE=32768

No signs of User=root which breaks tor.service when added. Should be removed as tor default settings does not include this.