How to get Opera work correctly with Privoxy?

Question

I use Privoxy and recently switched back to Opera as browser. Anything is fine, but one thing is annoying: Everytime I start the computer I have to restart privoxy (sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart) or Opera shows an error, that it cannot reach the proxy. What is wrong here?

Answer 1

It's definitely not an issue with Opera. It's a problem with Privoxy. My Privoxy logfile in /var/log/privoxy/logfile mumbles about "Fatal error: can't bind to 192.168.2.3:8118: Cannot assign requested address".

It's caused by this bug: privoxy not start at boot - karmic.

A workaround is available, which delays the startup of Privoxy. Quoted from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/privoxy/+bug/427625/comments/17:

Further workaround suggestions: rename /etc/rc2.d/S?0privoxy to /etc/rc2.d/S99privoxy. If even that doesn't work, then edit /etc/init.d/privoxy and replace the do_start function with the following:

((begins))
do_start()
{
 # Return
 # 0 if daemon has been started
 # 1 if daemon was already running
 # 2 if daemon could not be started
 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
  || return 1
 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
  $DAEMON_ARGS \
  && return 0
 # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
 # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
 # on this one. As a last resort, sleep for some time.
        sleep 1
 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
  $DAEMON_ARGS \
  || return 2
}
((ends))