Debian 10 - Tor browser black screen Connect to Tor
Debian 10. Tor browser windows are suddenly all black, including the Connect to Tor window. /var/log/messages shows the following warnings: kernel: [ xxx.xxxxxx] audit: type=xxxx audit(xxx.xxx:xx): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" profile="torbrowser_firefox" name="/usr/bin/lsb_release" pid=x comm="firefox.real" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=x ouid=x The cause is a bug related to Apparmor, bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942901 Apparmor status can be checked with: apparmor_status It is possible to remove Apparmor and restart the machine to workaround the problem: apt-get remove apparmor apparmor-utils libapparmor-perl; reboot This is however weakening the security since Apparmor is removed. There is a better workaround in the bug report that keeps Apparmor. Create or edit this file: /etc/apparmor.d/local/torbrowser.Browser.firefox Fill it with: owner /{dev,run}/shm/org.mozilla.*.* rw, owner @{torbrowser_home_dir}/updater ix, Note the commas on the end of each line. Then restart Apparmor: systemctl restart apparmor Then restart Tor browser.
This is a personal note. Last updated: 2019-11-22 19:18:20.