I have an issue with Tor Browser crashing in Whonix in debian virtualbox.
The issue seems to be whonix related as I did the following after it started crashing:
- I upgraded debian to the latest. (only TZDATA needed upgrading, my system is alaways within a day of latest update)
- It still crashed
- I upgraded to the latest virtualbox and extensions pack (from 6.1.30 to 6.1.34)
- still crashed
- I downloaded latest tor browser on my workstation. Worked with no issue.
- I downloaded the same tor-browser within whonix-workstation and ran that version.
- It crashed as the default installed one!
Running from the terminal, in debug mode, I got the following:
user@host:~$ torbrowser
Fontconfig warning: â/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.confâ, line 85: unknown element âblankâ
Fontconfig warning: â/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.confâ, line 85: unknown element âblankâ
Fontconfig warning: â/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.confâ, line 85: unknown element âblankâ
Fontconfig warning: â/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.confâ, line 85: unknown element âblankâ
Fontconfig warning: â/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.confâ, line 85: unknown element âblankâ
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser: line 362: 7071 Segmentation fault (core dumped) TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD=${TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD} ./firefox --class âTor Browserâ -profile TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default â${@}â < /dev/null
[ERROR] [torbrowser] Tor Browser ended with non-zero (error) exit code!
Tor Browser was started with:
/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser --verbose --allow-remote .
Tor Browser exited with code: 139
Can I give any other info to help?
Thanks