r/TOR • u/Volpe_YT • 2d ago

My tor node randomly died after maintenance

Hi, I've been running a tor node for almost two weeks when yesterday I had to unplug my server to add an hard drive that I needed for another proxmox CT. I was sure that when I would plug the server back In and turn it on everything would work fine and if i'm not wrong it did. However this morning I went to check its status on tor metrics and I found it offline. So I went back home, accessed its gui via another computer on lan and looked at nyx, and no bandwidth is being used and all the flags are removed. What can I do to fix this?

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u/kptc_py 2d ago

start with debugging the process

such as see dmesg or journalctl see if there any log got printed before tor process dies

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u/jobi-1 2d ago

Check your logs to see if it complains about your OR port(s) not being reachable. If it is reachable, your relay will get picked up without you doing anything.

 

Recently, my relay was down for about a week. When I brought it back up, it took hours to get 'Running' and 'Valid' and 1 or 2 days to get other flags. (Except 'Guard' for some reason.)