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linux-image-manager/lim/configuration/initramfs-tools/tor_hook
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach 919651277e fix(image): keep the Tor onion reachable on RTC-less boards
An RTC-less Pi boots at 1970; Tor then rejects the consensus and the unlock
onion never publishes. Bake a clock floor (build epoch) into the initramfs and
jump the clock forward to it before Tor starts, and pass a numeric tor_ntp= in
the cmdline so busybox ntpd syncs without DNS. Proven on hardware: the onion
unlock succeeded on a Pi 3 after this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 18:15:57 +02:00

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#!/bin/sh
# initramfs-tools build hook: bake the Tor onion service into the initramfs.
# Installed to /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/tor by linux-image-manager.
PREREQ="dropbear"
prereqs() { echo "$PREREQ"; }
case "$1" in
prereqs) prereqs; exit 0 ;;
esac
. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
copy_exec /usr/bin/tor /usr/bin
# glibc resolves the NTP server hostname via getaddrinfo(), which dlopen()s
# these NSS modules at runtime; without them DNS silently fails and the clock
# (RTC-less boards) stays at 1970, so Tor rejects the consensus.
for nss in /usr/lib/*/libnss_dns.so.2 /usr/lib/*/libnss_files.so.2 \
/lib/*/libnss_dns.so.2 /lib/*/libnss_files.so.2; do
[ -e "$nss" ] && copy_exec "$nss"
done
# Full busybox for the ntpd applet (the initramfs busybox may lack it); a
# distinct path keeps the initramfs's own busybox untouched.
for bb in /bin/busybox /usr/bin/busybox; do
[ -x "$bb" ] && { copy_exec "$bb" /usr/local/bin/busybox; break; }
done
date -u +%s > "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor-clock-floor"
# Onion keys + torrc, staged on the system by lim.
mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor/onion"
for key in hostname hs_ed25519_public_key hs_ed25519_secret_key; do
cp -a "/etc/tor/initramfs-onion/${key}" "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor/onion/${key}"
done
chmod 0700 "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor/onion"
chmod 0600 "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor/onion/hs_ed25519_secret_key"
cp -a /etc/tor/initramfs-torrc "${DESTDIR}/etc/tor/torrc"