privoxy crashes, fixed in upstream

[Richard]

Binary package hint: privoxy

Using Feisty 7.04, and the privoxy installed from universe, i.e. Privoxy 3.06-1, I found that privoxy kept crashing at some point, probably when nobody was using it (single user desktop and only noticed failure when I returned to PC). Restarting privoxy was workaround but crash kept happening. There were no messages about a crash in the privoxy /var/log/privoxy/error or logfile files.

I downloaded source for latest stable version from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118 and built using default options, and this fixed this issue.

This may also be fixed in hardy's 3.07, but since this bug makes Privoxy quite unreliable, and useless for a network installation, a backport would be nice.

For those who aren't ready to upgrade, or if hardy doesn't fix this, try installing it under /usr/local - checkinstall makes it quite easy to do this. Here's my HOWTO on how to do this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=705143 - requires some Ubuntu command line skills as some simpler steps are omitted.

Details of original Feisty package used:

Package: privoxy
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 2804
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.0.6-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libpcre3 (>= 4.5), logrotate, adduser
Recommends: doc-base
Filename: pool/universe/p/privoxy/privoxy_3.0.6-1_i386.deb
Size: 1278504
MD5sum: ae60095d7ecd7a3f9e0c94d77f6d5cc2
SHA1: a6cfee10554f3ec9580f7fa764f8d00b49cda91a
SHA256: d5f5ed62f0ffdf654c5bcddda8acac1afdf2488537a5cfb3caad737903a25b4c
Description: Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy
 Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
 protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
 controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
 obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration
 and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy
 has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
 .
 Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
 .
  Homepage: http://www.privoxy.org/
Bugs: mailto:<email address hidden>
Origin: Ubuntu

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

3.0.9 is now the latest version, so I'm assuming that this has been fixed, and as such I am marking it as Fixed Released. If the issue still exists, please reopen the report.