Running Stem With Tor Gives "process Terminated: Timed Out"

While trying to run Stem's To Russia With Love example, I am getting the following error: ~$ python practice.py Starting Tor: Traceback (most recent call last): File 'practice.

Solution 1:

It might be failing because you are missing the GeoIP database which is required to use an exit node from a specific country.

Try removing the 'ExitNodes': '{ru}', line from the python script, or since you're on Ubuntu, try sudo apt-get install tor-geoipdb and see if that helps get the connection up and running.

Since it takes time to build the circuits, you can try increasing the timeout a bit as well (though this probably isn't why its failing).

tor_process = stem.process.launch_tor_with_config(
  #tor_cmd = '/usr/bin/tor',
  timeout = 300,
  config = {
    'SocksPort': str(SOCKS_PORT),
#    'ExitNodes': '{ru}',
    'DataDir': '/tmp/tor',
    'Log': [
        'NOTICE file /tmp/tor.notice.log',
        'ERR file /tmp/tor.log',
    ],
  },
  init_msg_handler = print_bootstrap_lines,
)