[privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-3615140 ] Privoxy won't run or install on Mac OSX 10.9

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Support Requests item #3615140, was opened at 2013-10-23 19:00
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Category: startup
Group: 3.0.21
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: cjpragman (cjpragman)
Assigned to: Ian Silvester (diem)
Summary: Privoxy won't run or install on Mac OSX 10.9

Initial Comment:
Had a working version of privoxy 3.0.21 running fine on a laptop with Mac OS 10.8.5.
I upgraded the laptop today to 10.9 Mavericks.  After reboot, I see that privoxy hasn't loaded.  Used launchctl to unload and reload the .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons.  Still wound't start.

Next I tried downloading a fresh copy from here (3.0.21 64 bit).  Ran installer.  Installer failed.  I've attached the installer logs below.




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Comment By: Dutchwood (dutchwood)
Date: 2013-10-24 05:47

Message:
Having the same problem I stumbled across
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130908042828630. Let's see if
this is true.

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Comment By: cjpragman (cjpragman)
Date: 2013-10-24 02:38

Message:
here's the system log entries from a fresh attempt to unload and load the
privoxy.plist. Seems like it is unhappy with the _privoxy users.  Note that
this was working before the 10.9 install, so I don't know why the _privoxy
user would have been affected somehow just by upgrading the OS.

10/24/13 5:18:51.636 AM sudo[41618]: cpragman : TTY=ttys000 ;
PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -w
org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist
10/24/13 5:18:51.706 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (org.ijbswa.privoxy[41620])
getpwnam("_privoxy") failed
10/24/13 5:18:51.706 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (org.ijbswa.privoxy[41620])
Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 3: No
such process
10/24/13 5:18:51.706 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (org.ijbswa.privoxy[41620])
Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 3


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Comment By: Ian Silvester (diem)
Date: 2013-10-23 20:05

Message:
Hmmm, ah well, I guess this was inevitable - you may be the first person in
the world to be running Privoxy on 10.9! How do you feel about becoming a
beta tester ;o)

So then, as a first approximation, could you attach
/Applications/Privoxy/install.log please? Also could you try using
launchctl and see what error it throws when you launch Privoxy's
launchdaemon plist? You'll probably have to go look in the Message in
Console to see the proper error output.

Cheers, and sorry it hasn't worked out of the box,

Ian

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