<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:30 AM, <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </blockquote><div>RE: Message 2</div><div> </div><div>Try emptying out /etc/resolv.conf then add these 2 lines:</div><div> </div><div>nameserver 8.8.8.8</div><div>nameserver 8.8.4.4</div><div> </div><div>Save the new file then restart your browser.</div> <div>-Andy</div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: [OT] Quick Perl question (LeeGroups) 2. Re: Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04 (David King) 3. Re: Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04 (Andrew Bryant) 4. mount and fstab query (Bob Giles) 5. Re: Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04 (Colin Law) 6. Re: mount and fstab query (Alan Lord (News)) 7. Re: mount and fstab query (Tyler J. Wagner) 8. Re: mount and fstab query (ByteSoup) 9. Fwd: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion (Alan Pope) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:36:08 +0100 From: LeeGroups <<a href="mailto:mailgroups@varga.co.uk">mailgroups@varga.co.uk</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4C3E11A8.10106@varga.co.uk">4C3E11A8.10106@varga.co.uk</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > New line characters in the substitution string, perhaps? Dot doesn't > match those unless you modify the line: > > $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/s; > Kevin, may have something there - there is an inexplicable white space when the tags are doubled up. I.e. <solar>1,2,3,4,5</solar> <solar>6,7,8,9,0</solar> when it is doubled up I want to end up with just 1,2,3,4,5, so I can split it out into an array. I'll give the abaove a bash (no pun intended) when I get home tonight... Cheers, Lee ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:14:50 +0100 From: David King <<a href="mailto:linuxman@avoura.com">linuxman@avoura.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04 To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4C3E36DA.7000904@avoura.com">4C3E36DA.7000904@avoura.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed yes, the DNS addresses were there and the same as on the router. David Matthew Daubney wrote: > Hi David, > > It's possible you may not be recieving DNS information. If you right > click on the wirless icon (the one near the clock) and select > "Connection Information" it should mention primary DNS and secondary > DNS, are there IP addresses next to these? > > Thanks, > > -Matt Daubney > > > > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:59:45 +0100 From: Andrew Bryant <<a href="mailto:andrew@brilyant.org">andrew@brilyant.org</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04 To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4C3E4161.4050703@brilyant.org">4C3E4161.4050703@brilyant.org</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sorry, may I just recap on this? Web access has failed (i.e. your web browser cannot find anything), but the Internet connection is still there. So do email and ping work? Try something that is likely always to be there, e.g. ping <a href="http://bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">bbc.co.uk</a>, and check that it resolves an IP address (e.g. 212.58.244.67) If it doesn't resolve an IP address, there's something squiffy in the way your DNS is running. Andrew. On 14/07/10 23:14, David King wrote: > yes, the DNS addresses were there and the same as on the router. > > > David > > > > Matthew Daubney wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> It's possible you may not be recieving DNS information. If you right >> click on the wirless icon (the one near the clock) and select >> "Connection Information" it should mention primary DNS and secondary >> DNS, are there IP addresses next to these? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Matt Daubney >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:36:24 +0300 From: Bob Giles <<a href="mailto:thecorfiot@gmail.com">thecorfiot@gmail.com</a>> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4C3EAC68.7020204@gmail.com">4C3EAC68.7020204@gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi guys, I always work on the theory that most problems are caused by the lowest common denominator .... Me! However, this time I am not so sure. There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple of days and has now stopped working. However, if I run sudo mount -a in terminal the shares mount as expected. It may help solve this if I outline the background to this. I am running 10.04 32bit. I have always been unable to access images which I have stored on the NAS in shared folders from programs such as Picasa, Gwenview or Digikam. I guess that I am not alone with that problem. After a lot of googling I found a 'solution' that was originally published in respect of version 7.10. I will summarise the 'solution'. 1. Install smbfs 2. Create a folder inside /media. In my case /media/NASmedia 3. Create a credentials file in /root. (.cifscredentials) It contains passwords and is protected by the root account. 4. Edit .cifscredentials to contain username-USERNAME and password=PASSWORD. Save and close the file. 5. Edit /etc/fstab and add the following line at the end of the file: //<a href="http://192.168.1.15/SHARENAME" target="_blank">192.168.1.15/SHARENAME</a> /media/Storage cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=USER,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0 NB. 192.168.1.15 is the IP address of my NAS SHARENAME is the share name to mount. USER is my Ubuntu username. The file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 part sets the mounted directory as read/write for all users so long as the SMB username you set in .cifscredentials has read/write access. Once saved, the system would display a drive icon for the mounted share and it was accessible to all programs after running sudo mount -a or upon reboot. Now it only works if I run sudo mount -a after bootup. Any ideas? TIA Bob Giles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Firstly though, there was a > problem with the router, so I tried a friend's router (both Netgear > DG834) and the friend's one worked. > > But in Ubuntu, I could not access any web pages or email. Skype works. What happens when you try to access a web page? Check you have not got your browser set to Work Offline, this is in the file menu in Firefox. Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user is often useful for testing. Colin > > I tried using my netbook and that could access web pages okay. > > So then I booted my main PC into the old installation that I kept there > of Ubuntu 8.04, which I am using now. And in this the internet works > just fine, I can access websites and download and send email. > > But in Ubuntu 9.04, it seems like something is blocking my access. I do > not recall installing anything new, although something may have been > updated recently. > > What is the likely cause of the Internet being blocked for websites and > email (but not Skype)? > > > David King > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:05:44 +0100 From: "Alan Lord (News)" <<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com">alanslists@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <i1mc08$qb$<a href="mailto:1@dough.gmane.org">1@dough.gmane.org</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 15/07/10 07:36, Bob Giles wrote: > Hi guys, > > I always work on the theory that most problems are caused by the lowest > common denominator .... Me! However, this time I am not so sure. Any errors reported in, for example, /var/log/syslog or /var/log/samba/...? My first thought was a timing issue, i.e. the cifs kernel module isn't loading quickly enough. I'm not sure if this is the right avenue at all but one I would try and check. Have you changed anything (updated s/w) on either system recently? For example I recently upgraded my home server to 10.04 and a change to the samba stack stopped my Wife's WindowsXP VM (just for iTunes) working, but didn't affect anything else. It only required a minor change (forcing Samba to be a WINS server) but just to illustrate a point. There are few pointers here that might help too: <a href="http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html" target="_blank">http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html</a> HTH Al -- The Open Learning Centre <a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com" target="_blank">http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com</a> ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:15:29 +0100 From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <<a href="mailto:tyler@tolaris.com">tyler@tolaris.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Cc: Bob Giles <<a href="mailto:thecorfiot@gmail.com">thecorfiot@gmail.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:201007150915.30815.tyler@tolaris.com">201007150915.30815.tyler@tolaris.com</a>> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" On Thursday 15 July 2010 07:36:24 Bob Giles wrote: > There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded > me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple > of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple > of days and has now stopped working. However, if I run sudo mount -a in > terminal the shares mount as expected. Is networking available at boot-time? Or only after you login? Does mountall run before networking starts? One difference since Ubuntu 7.10 is the addition of network manager and when networking starts (on bootup versus on login). The easiest solution is to script a "sudo mount /media/Storage" as part of your login. Regards, Tyler -- "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:27:10 +0100 From: ByteSoup <<a href="mailto:bytesoup@gmail.com">bytesoup@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4C3EC65E.4050907@gmail.com">4C3EC65E.4050907@gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 15/07/10 07:36, Bob Giles wrote: > > Now it only works if I run sudo mount -a after bootup. > > Any ideas? > > TIA > > Bob Giles > Hi Bob, I dont think my problem is similar to yours but I made a post on the Ubuntu forums a while back using Xubuntu: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915939" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915939</a> It might help you -Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We're trying to get the good people at Stack Exchange to create a community Ubuntu users and developers question and answer site built on their platform and hosted for free by them (with all the content being CC licensed). ?As part of the proposal process we need to get people to visit the following page and click on the "Commit!" button, signalling that this is a website they would like to use, should it be created: <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu?referrer=qQssWsN94hKB49QQOgt7xA2" target="_blank">http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu?referrer=qQssWsN94hKB49QQOgt7xA2</a> If you're curious as to what this will look like once accepted, then there are already a few sites in public beta that you can explore: <a href="http://webapps.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank">http://webapps.stackexchange.com/</a> <a href="http://gaming.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank">http://gaming.stackexchange.com/</a> Thanks to some really lovely people in the community, we've already had coverage on Ubuntu Forums <<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529644" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529644</a>>, the Design Team blog <<a href="http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/vote-now-for-a-more-supportive-future/" target="_blank">http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/vote-now-for-a-more-supportive-future/</a>>, and OMG! Ubuntu! <<a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/vote-now-for-awesome-new-ubuntu-help.html" target="_blank">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/vote-now-for-awesome-new-ubuntu-help.html</a>>. ?But as I explain in my blog post <<a href="http://evand.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/nearly-there/" target="_blank">http://evand.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/nearly-there/</a>>, we need to reach out further into the community and let the boots-on-the-ground Ubuntu users know what we're all trying to do, and how they can help be a part of it by going to the proposal website and clicking on the "Commit!" button. This is where you come in. :) ?If this project excites you as much as it does for me, wont you please tell your LoCo teams about it. ?Feel free to use your own referral link (Stack Exchange has a spectacularly fun reward / badges system) that you can generate by signing up and then clicking on "Share This" on the proposal page. ?Lets work together to make this something truly spectacular that brings even more Ubuntu users into the fold and gives them a means of getting really high quality responses to their questions and continuous encouragement to help others. Thanks for your time. -- loco-contacts mailing list <a href="mailto:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts</a> ------------------------------ -- ubuntu-uk mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> End of ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 28 ***************************************** </blockquote></div>