Cannot connect to Tor network—“Something Went Wrong!”—is my ISP blocking Tor or is my distro’s package broken?

I get a big “Something Went Wrong!” when I connect to Tor—is my ISP blocking Tor or is my distro’s package broken?

  • Further context: I am connecting via USB tethering over my phone (Google Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS)
  • Operating System: NixOS (unstable)
  • Package source: Nixpkgs (channel nixos-unstable—I tested 22.11 too)
  • Tor Browser version: 12.0.4 (according to package manager)
  • Step by step of how you got to the issue: 1) Start Tor browser 2) Click connect
Log

2023-04-05 20:35:54.212 [NOTICE] New control connection opened.
2023-04-05 20:35:54.213 [NOTICE] New control connection opened.
2023-04-05 20:35:54.217 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-04-05 20:35:54.845 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on /run/user/1000/Tor/socks.socket
2023-04-05 20:35:54.846 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on /run/user/1000/Tor/socks.socket
2023-04-05 20:35:55.213 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay
2023-04-05 20:35:55.245 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
2023-04-05 20:35:55.287 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
2023-04-05 20:35:55.380 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
2023-04-05 20:35:55.381 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
2023-04-05 20:35:55.381 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
2023-04-05 20:35:55.381 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
2023-04-05 20:35:55.564 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done
2023-04-05 20:35:55.610 [NOTICE] New control connection opened.
2023-04-05 20:36:14.111 [NOTICE] New control connection opened.

I habe discovered this is a packagin issue. The releavtn issue is: [tor-browser] Proxy server refusing connections · Issue #219750 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

In recent versions of the Nix package “tor-browser-bundle-bin”, the configuration of “network.proxy.socks” (accessible from “about:config”) is incorrectly set to “127.0.0.1”. You have to manually set it to the correct value of “file:///run/user/1000/Tor/socks.socket”. It will probably be fixed soon. This issue doesn’t affect older users because their configuration is already correctly set in their local directory (~/.local/share/tor-browser/). If your user has a different id (id -u), modify “1000” accordingly.

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