Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 15 May 2012 15:45, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

>> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12
>
> This part is fine.
>
> I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me.

Ah, thanks for this!  It's reassuring to know that it's not just my system.  :-)


> So what I do now is:
>
> Firefox + FoxyProxy

Firefox is less of a problem for me because I can set it up to
socksify everything.  It is Kmail that I am mostly interested in.


> I see recent KDE now also supports socks. This is a nice new addition
> so konqueror can also use it.

Yes, but it does not work with the current stable kmail.  The new
KDEPIM is such a nightmare I do not plan moving to it anytime soon.
It screwed up one box that I tried it on and that's enough for me.
:-(

Did you have any success with proxychains?

I am not sure if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD error.


I also noticed that when I try to set up a proxy server in Chromium
using the 'under the bonnet' tab, I get this:

"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 while 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."

Trying the command line did not fix it:

[4742:4753:1575546819:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files

That's what made me think that something on my system is not set up
properly.  :-/


These are the libtsocks.so files in my system:

# ls -la /lib*/libtsocks.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1

# ls -la /lib/libtsocks.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1 ->
libtsocks.so.1.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1.8

# ls -la /lib64/libtsocks.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1 ->
libtsocks.so.1.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1.8

I can't see why it would not load it, unless it should be trying to
load the '/lib64/libtsocks.so' instead of the '/lib/libtsocks.so' on
an amd64 system?  Shall I file a bug?
-- 
Regards,
Mick