Tor doesnt start - seems like the torrc config is wrong

[Individuum92]

Hello,

tor does not start, although the service is running. The file /etc/tor/torrc is completely commented out. I have inserted at the end of the file (without brackets and tested with brackets):

root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/xxx# tor
Feb 15 21:20:55.647 [notice] Tor 0.4.6.10 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 3.0.2, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.5, Libzstd 1.4.8 and Glibc 2.35 as libc.
Feb 15 21:20:55.648 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/
Feb 15 21:20:55.648 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Feb 15 21:20:55.649 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Bad HashedControlPassword: wrong length or bad encoding
Feb 15 21:20:55.649 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword 5BC6.....

root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/xxx/darkdump# systemctl status tor
● tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sat 2025-02-15 21:06:27 CET; 6min ago
    Process: 4435 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 4435 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 2ms

Feb 15 21:06:27 ubuntu-desktop systemd[1]: Stopped Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).
Feb 15 21:06:27 ubuntu-desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
Feb 15 21:06:27 ubuntu-desktop systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
Feb 15 21:06:27 ubuntu-desktop systemd[1]: Finished Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).

root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/xxx/darkdump# ps aux | grep tor
xxx       2278  0.0  0.1 236844  6528 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/xdg-permission-store
xxx       2328  0.0  0.1  92288  5504 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-session-ctl --monitor
xxx       2490  0.0  0.2 390492 11392 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
xxx       2500  0.0  0.7 841320 31360 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory
xxx       2501  0.0  0.1 237972  6912 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
xxx       2505  0.0  0.1 237016  6656 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
xxx       2511  0.0  0.2 315796  8320 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
xxx       2516  0.0  0.1 237220  6400 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-goa-volume-monitor
xxx       2543  0.0  0.7 673100 29184 ?        Ssl  20:49   0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory
root     4503  0.0  0.0   9608  2560 pts/1    S+   21:11   0:00 grep --color=auto tor

root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/xxx/darkdump# ss -tulpn | grep LISTEN
tcp   LISTEN 0      128                               0.0.0.0:22         0.0.0.0:*    users:(("sshd",pid=737,fd=3))            
tcp   LISTEN 0      4096                        127.0.0.53%lo:53         0.0.0.0:*    users:(("systemd-resolve",pid=477,fd=14))
tcp   LISTEN 0      128                             127.0.0.1:631        0.0.0.0:*    users:(("cupsd",pid=707,fd=7))           
tcp   LISTEN 0      128                                  [::]:22            [::]:*    users:(("sshd",pid=737,fd=4))            
tcp   LISTEN 0      128                                 [::1]:631           [::]:*    users:(("cupsd",pid=707,fd=6))