<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 July 2010 10:07, David King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxman@avoura.com">linuxman@avoura.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> <br> Colin Law wrote:<br> > Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user<br> > add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user<br> > is often useful for testing.<br> ><br> > Colin<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> </div>Although my Ubuntu 9.04 has been working okay with accessing the<br> Internet recently, this morning when I booted into it, again I had no<br> internet access. I could not access the router, although when I looked<br> at the Network Connection, it showed an IP address as well as that of<br> the router, suggesting that there was no problem connecting to the<br> router or for the router to connect to the Internet.<br> <br> So I set up a new account on Ubuntu 9.04, and logged into that. Straight<br> away that user had internet access with nothing blocked, and I could<br> access the router and webpages okay in Firefox.<br> <br> So I then switched user back to my own normal user account and then had<br> access to the Internet okay.<br> <br> So what else should I be looking for to diagnose why my main user<br> account cannot access the Internet sometimes?<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The thing that immediately came to mind when you first posted this was that something might be setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. Some applications that access the Internet will acknowledge this and others don't, and if it's set to a non-existent or unreachable address, some connectivity will fail and some will work. I found, for example, for reasons too complex to get into now, that Google Earth will use it and that Firefox uses its own setting, so if it happens again, open a terminal and type 'env | grep HTTP_PROXY' and see if there's anything set for it.</div> <div><br></div><div>Simon</div></div><br>-- <br>BBC 6 Music saved! <a href="http://www.love6music.com">http://www.love6music.com</a><br>My CV: <a href="http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv">http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv</a><br>Linkedin: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonfgreenwood">http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonfgreenwood</a><br> Twitter: @sfgreenwood<br>