[Bug 666910] Re: Can not install addons

Dan Koga 666910 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun Dec 5 03:22:35 UTC 2010


Don't know if you are still interested but I solved the problem. About a
week ago I was having problems with my browsers serving the wrong page, I
would select a bookmark to go to Yahoo and instead the browser would display
the Google home page. Another time it showed a page from Scientific American
when trying to reach a totally different site. This happened in both Firefox
and Chromium so I know it was not a browser problem. And both browsers would
get directed to the wrong site (btw, if I remember correctly, the address
bar would show the address of the site I was trying to reach but the page
content was from a different site).

Anyway, I recalled reading some time ago about Google's DNS so I changed my
network setup to use Google's DNS and when I tried installing the addon
tonight it worked! Also, I was able to use wget to download the addon file.
As a check, I switched back to the Qwest DNS and wget failed.

Apparently there is some sort of problem with Qwest's DNS.

Thanks,
Dan

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:10 PM, RedSingularity
<RedSingularity at gmx.com>wrote:

> I see.  No problem.  Unfortunately we cannot confirm a networking
> problem until you try it on another network.  Though, this seems to
> point VERY strongly towards a networking issue.  If you get the chance
> to try anytime soon I would greatly appreciate a report back here
> verifying if the problem was resolved and thus confirm the network
> issue.
>
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> Can not install addons
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666910
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> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> I have tried to install several different addons and get the same error
> message:
>
> Firefox could not install the file at
>
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/383/addon-383-latest.xpi?src=search
>
> because: Download error
> -228
>
> I used apport to report this bug so the operating system (Ubuntu 10.10) and
> Firefox (3.6.11) info should have been sent.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: firefox 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Oct 26 11:54:32 2010
> FirefoxPackages:
>  firefox 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
>  firefox-gnome-support 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
>  firefox-branding 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
>  abroswer N/A
>  abrowser-branding N/A
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64
> (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox
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