[Privoxy-users] privoxy on android 8.1. Bad system call

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 7 19:07:00 UTC 2019


Thanks for the followup Atman! 

Let me know where you've located the binary for the 3.0.28 release and I will upload it to our server and mirror. 

Cheers, 

Ian

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, at 11:11, atman.sense at zise.de wrote:
> Uh, sounds like missing system calls in the kernel for the huawai 
> android or the platform
> (armv8/aarch64). In the worst case we need a specific build for aarch64. 
> In the best case the build
> for 3.0.28 fixes it due to a newer gcc.
> 
> 6. Januar 2019 13:09, "Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> schrieb:
> 
> > Hi Andrey,
> > 
> > First of all, it might be the email formatting, but it looks as though
> > there is a carriage return after the chmod 755. If that is the case then
> > delete it - the $CB_HOME/privoxy should be on the same line, with only a
> > space between the 755 and the remainder of the text.
> > If that is not the issue, could you try removing the "/mnt" element from
> > all the paths and see if that works?
> > I'm honestly just guessing though - I am running Android 6 and we have
> > had reports of success on 7, but I have no means of confirming whether
> > the workaround we're using to enable Privoxy to run can even work on
> > Android 8.
> > If you do get it to work, please report back to let the community know!
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> > My PGP public key[1]
> > 
> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018, at 14:29, Andrey Turbanov wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello, guys.
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to start privoxy on my non-rooted android device by
> >> instruction> from here:
> >> https://www.privoxy.org/sf-download-mirror/Android/3.0.26
> >> (stable)/privoxy> readme.txt
> >> 
> >> First of all I changed paths in privoxy.start script to be
> >> actual on my> system
> >> Actual content:
> >> CB_HOME=/data/data/org.connectbot
> >> [ /mnt/ext_sdcard/privoxy/usr/sbin/privoxy -nt $CB_HOME/privoxy
> >> ] && cat> /mnt/ext_sdcard/privoxy/usr/sbin/privoxy > $CB_HOME/privoxy &&
> >> chmod 755> $CB_HOME/privoxy
> >> $CB_HOME/privoxy --no-daemon /mnt/ext_sdcard/privoxy/config
> >> 
> >> I installed connectbot. Checked that /data/data/org.connectbot
> >> is actual> folder of this app.
> >> Why I try to run *sh privoxy.start I* get this:
> >> Bad system call.
> >> 
> >> [image: изображение.png]
> >> 
> >> Not sure what to do next. I've tried to diagnost problems with
> >> log file.> I've created config file
> >> logdir /mnt/ext_card/privoxy
> >> logfile privoxy.log
> >> debug 65536
> >> 
> >> But log file doesn't appear.
> >> 
> >> My phone:
> >> Huawei Mate 20 Lite
> >> Android 8.1.0
> >> 
> >> Is there any way to avoid this error?
> >> 
> >> Andrey Turbanov
> >> 
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> > 
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