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myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 297

Privoxy Bug?

Since the latest upgrade, Privoxy is blocking my internet connection.

If I start Privoxy in a terminal, I get the error message

 b74ca6c0 Fatal error: can't check configuration file '/home/myrlin/config':  No such file or directory

If I create a folder "config" everything works. I guess a "." has been omitted in the source code, so that Privoxy is looking for the folder "config" rather than ".config".

Does anyone else have this problem?

scottmuz

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Registered: 2011-11-13

Posts: 9

Re: Privoxy Bug?

I just upgraded and use privoxy with dansguardian and haven't seen any issues.

I get the following result from ps -ef | grep privoxy

/usr/sbin/privoxy --user root.root --pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid /etc/privoxy/config

myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 297

Re: Privoxy Bug?

I use Privoxy with Firefox on both my desktop and my laptop.

I have just discovered that  this problem only occurs on my laptop, which I have  modified to use systemd.

There are no problems on my desktop (NOT modified to use systemd), so maybe the problem lies elsewhere?

I originally used the privoxy-systemd package from the AUR to provide the privoxy.service unit. I uninstalled this to enable the new version of privoxy (presumably including its own privoxy.service file) to install successfully.  Perhaps something has broken in this process. I will completely uninstall privoxy, and re-install to see whether that makes any difference.

myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 297

Re: Privoxy Bug?

Further investigation indicates that the problem lies in the privoxy.service file.

This file, included in the latest version of the package fails:

[Unit]
Description=Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/privoxy.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile /run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy.privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target 

Replacing it with this file from the AUR (privoxy-systemd) solves it:

[Unit]
Description=Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy
 
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/privoxy --no-daemon /etc/privoxy/config
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I have checked that network.target is loaded and active, so that is not the cause.

Last edited by myrlin (2012-09-01 14:08:18)