tor's geoip6 file is missing in TBB-3.5 and hardcoded to a gitian-builder path
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When adding
GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1
ExitNodes {US}to the torrc of a freshly unzipped TBB-3.5-rc1 in order to force exiting from the US, tor printed the following messages which reference a gitian-builder path to tor's geoip6 file (not sure if the geoip file is affected).
∃!isisⒶwintermute:(master *$)~/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor-browser_en-US ∴ for p in `pgrep tor`; do ps -v $p ; done
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
4828 pts/12 S 0:00 0 100 4223 708 0.0 /bin/sh ./start-tor-browser
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
4869 pts/12 S 0:05 5 0 40012 17500 0.2 /home/isis/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor-browser_en-US/Tor/tor --defaults-torrc /home/isis/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
7369 ? S 9:43 121 0 94484 69988 0.8 tor-0.2.4.18-rc -f /home/isis/.tor/torrc
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
11511 ? S 0:59 1 0 46800 23452 0.2 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc
∃!isisⒶwintermute:(master *$)~/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor-browser_en-US ∴ kill -s SIGHUP 4869
Dec 18 03:44:14.000 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal state.
Dec 18 03:44:14.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/isis/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults".
Dec 18 03:44:14.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/isis/down/tbb-3.5-rc1/tor-browser_en-US/Data/Tor/torrc".
Dec 18 03:44:14.000 [warn] Failed to open GEOIP file /home/ubuntu/install/share/tor/geoip6. We've been configured to use (or avoid) nodes in certain countries, and we need GEOIP information to figure out which ones they are.