Win10x64 - tor.exe not starting anymore at all when using GeoIPFile or GeoIPv6File
In an (AFAIK) unchanged Tor installation¹ (torbrowser-install-win64-11.0.6_en-US.exe) tor.exe ceases to start since 2022/04/28. Last successful start: 2022/04/20 (not tried in between), no log file is written whatsoever (despite "Log notice file ..." in torrc) when failing.
Tracing the issue down I reduced torrc to only these 4 lines:
Log notice file R:\Temp\Tor.log
DataDirectory C:\Tools\Tor\Data\
GeoIPFile C:\Tools\Tor\Data\geoip
GeoIPv6File C:\Tools\Tor\Data\geoip6
I found that disabling GeoIP functionality allows tor.exe to start again.
#GeoIPFile C:\Tools\Tor\Data\geoip
#GeoIPv6File C:\Tools\Tor\Data\geoip6
As soon as I enable either one (or both) of the GeoIP DBs tor just crashes without a trace.
Same with Tor extracted from latest version²
System: Win10x64 Version 10.0.19043.1288, no AV except MS Defender 4.18.2203.5-0
¹ Windows unchanged as well - all updates are manual, no other admins
² extracted from torbrowser-install-win64-11.0.10_de.exe\Browser\TorBrowser\ and [...]\Browser\Data\ (using 7-zip)
P.S. Sorry for odd the line spacing, I may be too dumb for this editor