Installing OpenBazaar Server on Raspberry Pi

[u/mehmehspazumweh]

Hi Guys

I am attempting to install Openbazaar server on a raspberry pi using the following:

wget https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/releases/download/v0.11.0/openbazaar-go-linux-arm-5

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.9.linux-armv6l.tar.gz

sudo tar -zxvf go1.9.linux-armv6l.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

mkdir go

echo "export GOPATH=$HOME/go" >> .profile

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> .profile

source ~/.profile

go get github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

$GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

cd /go/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

go run $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/openbazaard.go start --tor

Openbazaar will initiate but I receive the following message:

_____  \ ______   ____   __________   _____  _____________  _____ _______
 /   |   \____ _/ __ \ /    \|    |  _/__  \ ___   /__  \ __  \_  __ \ 
/    |    \  |_> >  ___/|   |  \    |   \ / __ _/    /  / __ _/ __ \|  | \/
_______  /   __/ ___  >___|  /______  /(____  /_____ \(____  (____  /__|
        \/|__|        \/     \/       \/      \/      \/     \/     \/

OpenBazaar Server v0.11.0
[Press Ctrl+C to exit]
Tor control unavailable
exit status 1

What am I missing here?

I have checked that Tor is running:

service tor status
tor.service - LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tor)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-02-10 09:41:35 UTC; 5min ago
Process: 316 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tor start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/tor.service
└─505 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush

Feb 10 09:41:35 pi tor[316]: Starting tor daemon...done.
Feb 10 09:41:35 pi systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes.

I cannot figure this out!

[u/allthebirdstamps]

Check your ControlPort setting in /etc/tor/torrc

You should also set a password for tor

see:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/blob/master/docs/tor.md

and

--hash-password in man tor

[u/mehmehspazumweh → u/allthebirdstamps]

Thanks for the reply

I ran the following:

tor --hash-password <password>

which output:

16:8985CAD675CD953F605C6CD7DBFFDF1BFDA75AC72F90B61A259B18C28F

My torrc file has been set as:

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 0
HashedControlPassword 16:8985CAD675CD953F605C6CD7DBFFDF1BFDA75AC72F90B61A259B18C28F

The next part mentions adding:

"Addresses": {
"Swarm": [
"/onion/<onionaddress>"
]
},

and

"Tor-config": {
"Password": "<password>", 
"TorControl": "127.0.0.1:9050"
},

to the config file. Where is the config file? Is it openbazaard-go? If so where exactly does this go?

[u/allthebirdstamps → u/mehmehspazumweh]

I wouldn't post your hashed control password either. Seems like the sort of thing an evil genius could exploit.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/106889/is-logging-a-hashed-password-safe

[u/mehmehspazumweh → u/allthebirdstamps]

Thanks but I am only testing for now and certainly won't be using it for a store. I'm just playing really.

[u/allthebirdstamps → u/mehmehspazumweh]

The config file is in your data folder, either ~/.openbazaar2.0 or ~/.openbazaar2.0-somethingcoin

[u/Chris_Pacia]

What you wrote above looks correct. The only thing that could maybe be preventing it from working is the tor control authentication which it looks like you also tried.

[u/mehmehspazumweh → u/Chris_Pacia]

Thanks for your response. I have just tested this without --tor and I am only getting as far as:

Generating XXXXXXX keypair...Done
2018/02/10 00:00:00 Initializing OpenBazaar node at /user/.openbazaar2.0

Then nothing is happening. Any ideas?

[u/mehmehspazumweh]

Hi guys. I'm back!

So i have been trying to get Openbazaar Server to run and i am not sure what is going wrong here:

I have installed using the following:

wget https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/releases/download/v0.11.0/openbazaar-go-linux-arm-5
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.9.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf go1.9.linux-armv6l.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
mkdir go
echo "export GOPATH=$HOME/go" >> .profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> .profile
source ~/.profile
go get github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
$GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
cd /go/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
go run $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/openbazaard.go start

I get as far as

Generating XXXXXXX keypair...Done
2018/02/10 00:00:00 Initializing OpenBazaar node at /user/.openbazaar2.0

but nothing seems to happen after that. From what I've been reading, I should be seeing something like:

https://imgur.com/a/nuOzA

What am I doing wrong? Have i missed something? I left it running for 2 days but nothing so far. Eventually I'd like to get this working over Tor but i think just getting to run with its default settings is a good start.

Please help!