If we could fix these problems automatically for them on update, then the recovery would be automatic, at the cost of longer circuit creation for everyone (only after an update though).TOR, The Onion Router in long terms, is a world well known Anonymous Network which provides users browse internet ‘Completely’ anonymously. Right now, users can't recover from this state without blowing away their profile.

We can't clear the `tor/data` directory on startup because it would cause long delays in creating new Tor circuits, but perhaps we can clear that directory on **update**. After deleting the folder, it returns to normal. The circuit cannot be established and gets stuck in the bootstrapping phase at 0%. Mar 04 09:28:02.000 Catching signal TERM, exiting took a look and found that it is affected by some states in the `tor/data` folder. Mar 04 09:28:02.000 Starting with guard context 'default' Mar 04 09:28:01.254 Configuration file '/nonexistent' not present, using reasonable defaults. Mar 04 09:28:01.254 Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at Mar 04 09:28:01.254 Tor 0.4.5.6 running on Darwin with Libevent 2.1.11-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1i, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma N/A, Libzstd N/A and Unknown N/A as libc. These two versions should be binary compatible. All he sees in `brave://tor-internals` is: I collected a browser profile from a user on Mac Catalina 10.15.7 who is unable … to use Tor windows in 1.21.73.

Tor is