From 8c497fa449ab2a2df7b82b21823c5db0e82fb99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Silvester Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:14:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added description of known Mavericks/Yosemite upgrade problem to readme files --- pkg resources/interface texts/Finish Up.txt | 3 +-- pkg resources/interface texts/ReadMe.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/pkg resources/interface texts/Finish Up.txt b/pkg resources/interface texts/Finish Up.txt index babc6c6..fea89b9 100644 --- a/pkg resources/interface texts/Finish Up.txt +++ b/pkg resources/interface texts/Finish Up.txt @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -Now that Privoxy is installed you must configure your web browser(s) to use it. Please refer to the readme file in -/Applications/Privoxy for details of how to do this (it should have just opened automatically). +Now that Privoxy is installed you must configure your web browser(s) to use it. Please refer to the readme file in /Applications/Privoxy for details of how to do this (it should have just opened automatically). If you have installed Privoxy over a previous installation, your existing configuration has been preserved. The configuration files supplied with this install will have a '.new' extension and it is up to you to merge these into your existing configuration files. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/pkg resources/interface texts/ReadMe.txt b/pkg resources/interface texts/ReadMe.txt index 2e762fe..c30af10 100644 --- a/pkg resources/interface texts/ReadMe.txt +++ b/pkg resources/interface texts/ReadMe.txt @@ -1,7 +1,19 @@ -February 2013, Privoxy 3.0.21 (stable) is released. +November 2014, Privoxy 3.0.22 (stable) OS X installer V1.0 released. -This installer supports 64 bit Intel processors running OS X 10.6 or higher. +Version Support -This is a stable release that includes a few small improvements and a correction for a security issue affecting all previous releases of Privoxy on certain platforms. +This installer supports Intel 64 bit processors running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or higher. -Please see the "What's New in this Release" section in the User Manual for details of all new features introduced and bugs fixed. \ No newline at end of file +What's New + +Please see the "What's New in this Release" section in the User Manual for details of all new features introduced and bugs fixed in Privoxy 3.0.22. + +Known Problem + +The OS X 'Mavericks' & 'Yosemite' releases have a bug that causes an intermittent problem for Privoxy that a simple upgrade install will not cure. If you have a persistent problem with Privoxy not starting (in your web browser you get a "Cannot connect to proxy server" error) then the best advice is to completely uninstall Privoxy (using the guide in the readme file at /Applications/Privoxy) then reinstall from scratch. Please ensure you take a copy of your config file and filters if you have made any customisations you do not want to lose. + +For the technically minded, the bug is that the _privoxy user & group cannot be reliably read from directory services at system startup time (there are suggestions that usernames with leading underscore are no longer properly supported), causing Privoxy to fail to load. Details can be found in these discussion threads: + +https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/1601/ +https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/1599/ +https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/882/ \ No newline at end of file -- 2.39.2