Bug 113351 – privoxy fails to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alexander Jenisch 2005-11-23 06:24:45 UTC]

<15:24><Wed Nov 23></usr/lib64>
root@enti $ privoxy
Nov 23 15:24:25 Privoxy(46912504073920) Fatal error: can't check configuration
file '/usr/lib64/config':  No such file or directory
Nov 23 15:24:25 Privoxy(46912504073920) Fatal error: can't check configuration
file '/usr/lib64/config':  No such file or directory

root@enti $ emerge info
Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.15-rc1-mm2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -ftracer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirror.intouch.nl/gentoo/
http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdda crypt ctype cups curl dga divx4linux dts
dvd dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb
fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq
idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit kde
kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libwww lm_sensors lua lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska
mhash mikmod mime mmap mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl
png posix ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode rtc ruby samba
sasl sdl slp sndfile sockets spell sqlite ssl stream tcltk tcpd tetex theora
threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales
videos vorbis wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-11-23 10:10:19 UTC]

works for me on amd64

privoxy is supposed to get started by running the init.d script with the same name:
  /etc/init.d/privoxy start

[Comment 2 Alexander Jenisch 2005-11-23 10:21:33 UTC]

i had this working too until today. maybe it stopped working, because of the
mysql upgrade.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-11-23 12:06:47 UTC]

by default privoxy tries to open config file from the current directory.
unless your pwd is /etc/privoxy, this command won't work.

this is the way privoxy works. it may not be the perfect way, but it is kind of
common behaviour among programs that could run on win32 and unix.