[Tox Support] Errors recently

A.M. Rowsell amr at frzn.dev
Thu Sep 10 20:03:50 UTC 2026


Hi there!

I've been running a bootstrap node on my VPS for a couple of years now. 
However, recently I noticed it was offline, which was strange. I 
restarted it, and it core dumped after a few hours. I pulled the latest 
git commits, did a fresh build, and I'm starting to see some of the same 
errors I saw before the core dump.

Sep 10 19:34:23 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) decrypted 
length 15 does not match expected length 49
Sep 10 19:46:17 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) decrypted 
length 15 does not match expected length 49
Sep 10 19:49:33 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) incoming 
connection 0 would overwrite existing
Sep 10 19:52:08 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) incoming 
connection 61 would overwrite existing
Sep 10 19:52:14 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) incoming 
connection 62 would overwrite existing
Sep 10 19:52:42 infrared tox-bootstrapd[1373862]: (tox.core) decrypted 
length 15 does not match expected length 289

Eventually, after some number of these errors (anywhere from like 20-50) 
we get a core dump like this:

Sep 09 16:35:04 infrared systemd[1]: tox-bootstrapd.service: Main 
process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV

Wondering if anyone else is seeing this in journalctl or whichever logs 
you use.

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