Problems with Tor and Privoxy....

[tylenol187]

Hello, I'm trying to get Tor and Privoxy working on BT3 and I'm having a hell of a time. I'm at the point of wanting to throw the f*cking computer out the window!!!!!!!!!!! I've used Tor many times before with NO PROBLEMS. For some reason, when i installed Tor and Privoxy this time and setup torbutton in firefox, it's not working! I get a 503 error EVERYTIME. This is the error message it shows me when Tor is enabled....
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This is Privoxy 3.0.8 on localhost (127.0.0.1), port 8118, enabled
Forwarding failure

Privoxy was unable to socks4a-forward your request
hxxps : / / check . torproject . org : 443 / through localhost:
SOCKS4 negotiation read failed.

Just try again to see if this is a temporary problem, or check your forwarding settings and make sure that all forwarding servers are working correctly and listening where they are supposed to be listening.
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I've updated/reinstalled/restarted and all that shit several times and no luck. i even tried installing it on windowz and it gave me the same error. My Privoxy config file gives the following commands...
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forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
user-manual /usr/local/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual/
trust-info-url hxxp : / / www . example . com/why_we_block . html
trust-info-url hxxp : / / www . example . com/what_we_allow . html
confdir /usr/local/etc/privoxy
logdir /var/log/privoxy
actionsfile standard.action
actionsfile default.action
actionsfile user.action
filterfile default.filter
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
toggle 1
enable-remote-toggle 0
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 0
enforce-blocks 0
buffer-limit 4096
forwarded-connect-retries 0
accept-intercepted-requests 0
allow-cgi-request-crunching 0
split-large-forms 0
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As far as I know, all my config files are correct. I didn't want to copy and paste my entire torrc and .actions files on here, but if anyone needs to see them, I will. Can anyone please help me with this before i smash my computer and flush it down the toilet? thanks

[antichrist]

tor worked great on winblows with me, but when i installed tor with privoxy it would crash winblows every time i booted up :/ maybe those to conflict with each other? i dont know.
But if its happen to you on BT3 and with me on winblows, maybe its got somethign to do with the 2 programs running together?

[imported_=Tron=]

tor worked great on winblows with me, but when i installed tor with privoxy it would crash winblows every time i booted up :/ maybe those to conflict with each other? i dont know.
But if its happen to you on BT3 and with me on winblows, maybe its got somethign to do with the 2 programs running together?

Tor and Privoxy are designed to complement each other and work together. I have used them together on many an occasion and never experienced any problems.

Take a look at this post as it might be helpful to the OP.

[antichrist]

oh ok, maybe it was something that was floating around on my network at the time.

[tylenol187]

Tor and Privoxy are designed to complement each other and work together. I have used them together on many an occasion and never experienced any problems.

Take a look at this post as it might be helpful to the OP.

I downloaded those tgz's and ran installpkg for them both. added torbutton, now, when tor is enabled instead of getting the 503 error page, i get a completely BLANK page except for "Try again". so its still not working.... btw, i went into a shell and started tor with "tor" and started privoxy with "privoxy /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config.new" when i tried to start privoxy with just "privoxy" it gives me the following error:
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bt ~ # privoxy
Dec 08 01:29:26.869 Privoxy(b7d966c0) Info: Privoxy version 3.0.8
Dec 08 01:29:26.869 Privoxy(b7d966c0) Info: Program name: privoxy
Dec 08 01:29:26.870 Privoxy(b7d966c0) Fatal error: can't check configuration file '/root/config': No such file or directory
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any more suggestions? id really like to get this working. ive never had this problem with tor...

[KMDave]

Then you either should point privoxy to the right config file or create one in your /root directory.

The error message is pretty much saying what the problem is.

[tylenol187]

Then you either should point privoxy to the right config file or create one in your /root directory.

The error message is pretty much saying what the problem is.

i understand that part. as u can see in my previous post, i DID point it to a config file, and as far as i could tell the config file was fine. however, its still not working

[KMDave]

Did you try to copy it over?

[tylenol187]

yup, tried copying it to the /root folder but still no-go. can someone post a copy of their working privoxy config file? or atleast just the important lines?

[Phoneywar]

I'm not familiar with Tor but I do use Privoxy under Windows and Ubuntu, Slackware may be different but I doubt there is much of a difference.

Your later problems are probably because you are trying to run it directly as root and it cannot find the files it needs. Normally it runs under it's own non-privileged uid/gid and is controlled by the usual boot script, /etc/init.d/privoxy under Ubuntu. My guess would be /etc/rc.d/rc.privoxy under Slackware. I assume tor is much the same.

Try invoking the scripts with the appropriate parameter to start them.

As for your original problem, try replacing localhost in the forward-socks4a statement with the ip address. I've encountered this problem in the past where software doesn't understand localhost but works fine with 127.0.0.1 instead.