I had my tor command line installed, configured and running for months on my Mac.
Suddenly it stopped working, it starts and then hangs at
Starting with guard context "default"
Even the log file doesn't say much
Apr 18 08:39:44.836 [notice] Opened Control listener on 127.0.0.1:10041
Apr 18 08:39:44.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/local/Cellar/tor/0.4.2.7/share/tor/geoip.
Apr 18 08:39:44.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/local/Cellar/tor/0.4.2.7/share/tor/geoip6.
Apr 18 08:39:45.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting
Apr 18 08:39:45.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "default"
Any clue?
I have had the same problem. I installed another version of tor and the problem persisted. I concluded that both versions were accessing the same resource. The first thing that came to mind was ~/.tor. Renamed it appropriately just in case I needed it further down the line and started tor. It worked. If there is no need to keep ~/.tor, simply use:
rm -rf ~/.tor