Not able to run tor-router with instances

[prashant1507]

when I am trying to run tor-router -j 3 -s 127.0.0.1:16379 with node v10.17.0 and npm 6.13.0

`info: [control]: control server listening on tcp://:9077
info: [tor]: starting 3 tor instance(s)...
info: [socks]: listening on socks5://127.0.0.1:16379
events.js:174
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: spawn /home/shibu/Downloads/node_modules/granax/bin/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor ENOENT
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:415:16)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
Emitted 'error' event at:
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:246:12)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:415:16)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
`

Also, granax dependencies are changes to @deadcanaries/granax. Can you please help me fixing the issue.

[jogli5er]

On which platform do you run it? Documentation by granax states that they only download the Tor Browser bundle on Mac and Windows, but on Linux one has to specify the path to the binary.

When Granax is installed on Mac OSX or Windows platforms, it will automatically download a copy of the Tor Browser Bundle locally and use it - no configuration required! On GNU+Linux systems, Granax expects the tor package to be installed.

(Compare https://deadcanaries.gitlab.io/granax/tutorial-getting-started.html)

[znetstar]

Situations like the one you've encountered are exactly why I recommend using Docker lol. As specified in the documentation using Docker you can run docker run --rm -it -p 127.0.0.1:1637:9050 znetstar/tor-router -j 3 -s and it should work without issue, since the Docker image bundles the correct version of Tor.

That being said, I'm assuming you're on Linux because of the reference to /home/shibu. Download tor through your package manager, apt install tor on Debian/Ubuntu or yum install tor on Fedora/RedHat/Suse. You can then run tor-router -t /usr/bin/tor -j 3 -s 127.0.0.1:16379

[talha0324]

This is according to global installation
go to this path
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\tor-router\node_modules\@deadcanaries\granax\index.js

and replace the line

  switch (platform) {
    case 'win32':
->      torpath = path.join(BIN_PATH, 'Browser', 'TorBrowser', 'Tor', 'tor.exe');
      break;

with this:

  switch (platform) {
    case 'win32':
      torpath = path.join(BIN_PATH, /*'Browser', 'TorBrowser', A FIX HERE */'Tor', 'tor.exe');
      break;

then there should be no error.