[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#854251: onionshare: unhandled exception, server not starting

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Package: onionshare
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: normal

cant get it to start in gui or cli

$ onionshare --debug fortune-signed.pdf
Onionshare 0.9.1 | https://onionshare.org/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/connection.py", line 526, in
authenticate
    protocolinfo_response = get_protocolinfo(controller)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/connection.py", line 1016,
in get_protocolinfo
    protocolinfo_response = _msg(controller, 'PROTOCOLINFO 1')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/connection.py", line 1055,
in _msg
    return controller.msg(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/control.py", line 634, in msg
    raise response
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/control.py", line 924, in
_reader_loop
    control_message = self._socket.recv()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/socket.py", line 160, in recv
    return recv_message(socket_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/socket.py", line 573, in
recv_message
    raise stem.ProtocolError('Badly formatted reply line: beginning is
malformed')
stem.ProtocolError: Badly formatted reply line: beginning is malformed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onionshare", line 22, in <module>
    onionshare.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/onionshare/onionshare.py", line
144, in main
    app.start_onion_service()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/onionshare/onionshare.py", line
79, in start_onion_service
    self.onion = onion.Onion(self.transparent_torification)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/onionshare/onion.py", line 64, in
__init__
    self.c.authenticate()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/control.py", line 1071, in
authenticate
    stem.connection.authenticate(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stem/connection.py", line 528, in
authenticate
    raise IncorrectSocketType('unable to use the control socket')
stem.connection.IncorrectSocketType: unable to use the control socket




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages onionshare depends on:
ii  python3-flask        0.12-1
ii  python3-pyqt5        5.7+dfsg-5
ii  python3-stem         1.5.3-1
pn  python3:any          <none>
ii  torbrowser-launcher  0.2.6-3

onionshare recommends no packages.

Versions of packages onionshare suggests:
ii  tor  0.3.0.2-alpha-1~d89.stretch+1

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