Bug 558748 - Privoxy 3.0.13-beta seems hosed: many connection errors
Summary: Privoxy 3.0.13-beta seems hosed: many connection errors
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: privoxy
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 572217
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-26 10:10 UTC by D. Wagner
Modified: 2010-04-27 05:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12
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Last Closed: 2010-04-14 01:34:54 UTC
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Description D. Wagner 2010-01-26 10:10:17 UTC
Description of problem:

I've been using privoxy-3.0.13-beta.1.fc12.1.x86_64.rpm since upgrading F11->F12.  That version seems hosed.  I frequently get connection errors; perhaps 1 in 20 of new tabs/windows/URLs opened fail.  When they fail, either I get a privoxy error message, or I get a 404-like error message from the site itself.  Just to add to the surprise/confusion/screwiness factor, occasionally when I'm opening tabs from multiple sites, say sites X and Y, opening a new tab with some URL at site X will take me to a page on site Y.  It's really messed up.

I grabbed 3.0.15-beta from the sourceforge page and built from source.  I've been running 3.0.15-beta successfully without any problems.  I think 3.0.13-beta is hosed and pretty much unusable; in contrast, 3.0.15-beta is much better and I haven't encountered any more of those errors.

Can I suggest generating a new privoxy package with 3.0.15-beta and pushing that to updates, or at least updates-testing?

(To get 3.0.15-beta, I started from the 3.0.13-beta.1 src rpm, extracted the sources, replaced the 3.0.13-beta source tarball with the 3.0.15-beta source tarball, and tweaked the spec file.  I deleted the two patches, because 3.0.15-beta doesn't seem to have a inittab file of the proper form anymore.  That was a quick hack.  Similarly, as a quick hack I deleted all references to the logrotate file.  When packaging 3.0.15-beta, to do it right, you'll probably have to add some patches to install a reasonable /etc/init.d/privoxy script and a reasonable /etc/logrotate.d/privoxy script.  So, packaging up 3.0.15-beta isn't going to be a totally trivial task for the package maintainer.  But hopefully it shouldn't be too bad, and since 3.0.13-beta seems so broken, it's probably necessary.)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

privoxy-3.0.13-beta.1.fc12.1.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible: Reproducible if you browse for a while.  For me, one fairly reliable way to reproduce was to visit nytimes.com (potentially with another site open in another tab), and middle-click on a bunch of links to open them up in a new tab.  It took a little while, but eventually I started seeing hosage.  The only way I could find to recover from the hosage was to restart privoxy (service privoxy restart).

Comment 1 Chen Lei 2010-02-03 08:41:03 UTC
I also have these problems.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-03-26 09:00:38 UTC
privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc13

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-03-26 09:42:34 UTC
privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2010-03-26 09:51:46 UTC
Please test the latest privoxy updates and add a note at the URLs from comment #2 and comment #3

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-03-27 00:56:23 UTC
privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update privoxy'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-04-14 01:34:45 UTC
privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-04-27 05:47:59 UTC
privoxy-3.0.16-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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