Package: polipo Version: 1.0.4.1-1.1 Severity: normal Part of the Tor configuration documentation (https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en#polipo) says to use their particular Polipo config file (https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf). As root, I wgetted it, copied it over the default config and then:
root@craft:/etc/polipo# /etc/init.d/polipo start && echo true Starting polipo: Couldn't open config file /etc/polipo/config: 13. An error on line 13? What's the problem? I open up the file and remove line 13. Still the error. I remove the comments to see whether it affects the line number. Still the error. I look for invisible characters (often a cause of bugs in Makefiles, and for all I know, Polipo). Still the error. The damn line 13 keeps causing errors for no reason I can see! I purge polipo, reinstall, and this time try editing the Tor config to resemble the old config; but a lot of the settings seem different or to have changed names. My modifications don't work. At this point, I check the Tor trac - maybe Debian unstable's polipo has non-backwards compatible changes and someone reported that their config is borked. But no. I go to their IRC channel to ask whether anyone there has run into the problem. They haven't. After a while, one of them suggests I check the permissions. Well, the new config was perfectly readable by root (`-rw------- 1 root root 3904 Jun 16 21:16 config`), but it does differ from the original config's permissions, so I try a `chmod a+r`. Now polipo starts and I can browse through Tor! It turned out that the ': 13' had nothing to do with line or column numbers or parse errors. It apparently was supposed to mean that polipo *couldn't read* the config! In all my other software, an absolute filename followed by a colon and then a number, gives information about where in the file the error was found. This is worse than an uninformative error message: it is actively misleading. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages polipo depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib polipo recommends no packages. polipo suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/polipo/config changed: proxyAddress = "127.0.0.1" proxyPort = 8118 allowedClients = 127.0.0.1 allowedPorts = 1-65535 proxyName = "localhost" cacheIsShared = false socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050" socksProxyType = socks5 chunkHighMark = 67108864 diskCacheRoot = "" localDocumentRoot = "" disableLocalInterface = true disableConfiguration = true dnsUseGethostbyname = yes disableVia = true censoredHeaders = from,accept-language,x-pad,link censorReferer = maybe maxConnectionAge = 5m maxConnectionRequests = 120 serverMaxSlots = 8 serverSlots = 2 tunnelAllowedPorts = 1-65535 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
