[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#603191: chromium-browser: privoxy/ipv6 does not work for --proxy-server

[Christian Jaeger]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 6.0.472.63~r59945-1
Severity: normal


Hello

When trying to configure Chromium to use Privoxy (the privoxy Debian package), there are two (separate?) issues:

1. in the gui options dialog, clicking on "change proxy settings" just display the following text in the top browser window:

    When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the
    system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is
    not supported or there was a problem launching your system
    configuration.

    But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
    chromium-browser for more information on flags and environment
    variables.

2. starting Chromium as

    chromium-browser --proxy-server=localhost:8118

makes it unable to get any web page, apparently because privoxy is listening on ::1, but not on 127.0.0.1. Even this

    chromium-browser --proxy-server=ipv6-localhost:8118

does not help. Changing /etc/privoxy/config

    -listen-address  localhost:8118
    +listen-address  127.0.0.1:8118

and restarting privoxy makes Chromium as

    chromium-browser --proxy-server=localhost:8118

work.

So thanks to this workaround, I can still use it. Hopefully people can at least find this bug as help in case it cannot be fixed for the next release.

I guess this is really a duplicate of bug #601255, but not being sure and to provide my own software versions I'm sending this separate report.

Christian.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-ins 6.0.472.63~r59945-1 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2           1.0.23-2.1          shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.30.0-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.5-6             high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                2.11.2-6            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2            1.8.10-6            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2             1.4.4-3             Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.24-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.88-2              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2       1.4.13-stable-1     An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1            2.0.1-7             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-2.1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.2-1             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.5-4           GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4          2.28.1-5            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.5-2             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.7.1-4             A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglewmx1.5         1.5.4-1             The OpenGL Extension Wrangler - ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.24.2-1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.20.1-2            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu44             4.4.1-6             International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62            6b1-1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d          4.8.6-1             NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d           3.12.8-1            Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.28.3-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.44-1            PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.5-4             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libv8-2.2.24         2.2.24-6            V8 JavaScript Engine
ii  libvpx0              0.9.1-1             VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6             2:1.3.3-3           X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6             2:1.1.2-1           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2              2.7.7.dfsg-4        GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.6-1           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.26-6            XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.0-2           X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3    compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn  chromium-browser-l10n         <none>     (no description available)

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