No access to Gmail
Richard Steinitz
richard at LPAgroup.biz
Fri Dec 8 15:39:47 UTC 2006
Melissa Draper wrote:
Richard,
Are you able to connect to any web pages at all? (What about
http://ubuntu.com or http://yahoo.com?)
Do other web things work? (ie, synaptic, irc)
--
Sincerely
Melissa Draper
http://www.meldraweb.com
Phone: 0404 595 395
P.O Box 1412
Lavington, NSW 2641
Richard Steinitz - LPA Group
P.O. Box 1791, Ramat HaSharon 47117 ISRAEL
Tel: +972-9-955-6161 / Fax: +972-9-954-1585
E-mail: richard at LPAgroup.biz
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Major Bug? Edgy 'losing' swap file (Gabriel Dragffy)
2. No access to Gmail (Richard Steinitz)
3. XUbuntu Edgy - choppy sound (Lennon Cook)
4. Re: updatedb : how to disable its (an)cron job ? (Derek Broughton)
5. Re: Installed (auto removable) (Derek Broughton)
6. Re: gnome-network-manager (applet): Nuisance? [question &
rant] (Derek Broughton)
7. Re: No Ubuntu hostnames in DHCP logs (Derek Broughton)
8. Re: No access to Gmail (Melissa Draper)
9. Xubuntu (squareyes)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:18:51 +0000
From: Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Major Bug? Edgy 'losing' swap file
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 16:10 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> > So how does this get lost? And more urgently, how to I tell it to go
> > use the swap partition?
>
> I did check the fstab file, it does mention a swap file:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # /dev/hda7
> UUID=df4e8992-2a83-4dfd-bba4-b85a448ee6b1 / reiserfs
> notail 0 1
> # /dev/hda8
> UUID=45aee921-12ac-4227-9041-01a517b5fb59 /home reiserfs
> defaults 0 2
> # /dev/hda1
> UUID=5E8471C78471A1E7 /media/drive-c ntfs-3g
> users,rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
> # /dev/hda5
> UUID=7C7B-03FC /media/drive-d vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
> 1
> # /dev/hda6
> UUID=173e4af7-fb67-445f-adec-8111b3842ea4 none swap sw
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
>
>
I can only suggest
sudo swapon /dev/hda6
that will at least give you the swap back while you/we figure out the root cause. No
need to reinstall in any case.
>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:31:02 +0200
From: Richard Steinitz <richard at LPAgroup.biz>
Subject: No access to Gmail
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hi!
I'm running 6.10 on an old Pentium III / 800 mhz desktop. Works great, but ...
In Firefox, I can't access Gmail. Just sits there saying "Connecting to
Google.com..." and does nothing until it times out.
In the same way, I can't 'sign it' to my personalized Google home page.
Any ideas why this is?
Thanks
Richard Steinitz - LPA Group
P.O. Box 1791, Ramat HaSharon 47117 ISRAEL
Tel: +972-9-955-6161 / Fax: +972-9-954-1585
E-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:richard at LPAgroup.biz"richard at LPAgroup.biz
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:58:22 +1100
From: Lennon Cook <maguswizardo at gmail.com>
Subject: XUbuntu Edgy - choppy sound
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I have just done a fresh install of Xubuntu Edgy. All is going well so far, except
that whenever I try to play anything in my music player (The rox desktop's MusicBox),
the sound is incredibly choppy and scratchy. totem-gstreamer works fine. The primary
difference I can see between these is that MusicBox is python whereas Totem is C -
could this be a python-alsaaudio problem? Independently of that, though, how might I
get my music playing in such a way as I don't cringe?
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Lennon Victor Cook
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candle at mine receives light without darkening" -- Thomas Jefferson
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:05:47 -0400
From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
Subject: Re: updatedb : how to disable its (an)cron job ?
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Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> updatedb runs once a day, I think triggered by a (ana)cron job, and I
> would love to disable it, as it always has the bad habit of running
> when I am using the machine. I do use the "locate" command, but so
> rarely, that suffering updatedb just isn't worth it.
>
> I don't see any GUI in Gnome to manage scheduled jobs (might be an
> idea for a Feisty+1 spec....), could someone explain to me how to
> "properly" (ie not changing permissions ;-) disable updatedb's job ?
It's in /etc/cron.daily/
--
derek
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:07:29 -0400
From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
Subject: Re: Installed (auto removable)
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Freddie Ruddick wrote:
> On 07/12/06, Bj?rn Ingmar Berg <bjorn.ingmar.berg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suspect these are packages
>> that are no longer needed due to me having removed the package(s) that
>> depended on them. Is this correct?
>
> Yes, I believe so
No. They're "auto installed" as dependencies, and thus will be auto-removed
if the app that depended on them is removed. Try removing one now - you'll
see that it wants to remove something else.
--
derek
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:01:46 -0400
From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
Subject: Re: gnome-network-manager (applet): Nuisance? [question &
rant]
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Chanchao wrote:
> Is this applet really more nuisance than it's worth? Whenever it sees
> a wireless network (ANY network) that's open, it immediately connects to
> it, trashing any configured DNS information for my eth0 wired LAN
> connection in the process.
I've never seen that happen, and particularly it is supposed to always
choose a wired connection over a wireless one. Do you have one of those
not-well-implemented wireless NICs that tells HAL it's wired?
> And more generally, while I'm ranting anyway, WHY is DNS a global thingy
> anyway across all networks? Surely DNS settings are relative to the
> connection used, so if I'm using eth0 LAN at the office then I have a
> DNS server there, and then I'm at home on WiFi ADSL then I have a
> different DNS there.
Yeah? So???? :-) Generally, your DHCP server sends the DNS information
when it sends the IP address, so you _should_ always have different DNS
settings at different locations. network-manager sends plenty of
information to syslog about that.
I love network-manager. If only my wireless NIC was reliable, because nm
has made the rest of network management completely painless.
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derek
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:04:38 -0400
From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
Subject: Re: No Ubuntu hostnames in DHCP logs
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> We have a wireless router here which acts as a gateway and DHCP server.
>> When checking its logs the Windows based clients are listed using the
>> computer names. However, Ubuntu based machines have a blank hostname and
>> its a little tedious matching up MACs with IPs. What setting must I
>> alter on these ubuntu machines?
>
> I'm at work at the moment and can't check the actual filenames, but if
> you go into /etc then type dhcp<tab> (I think it's /etc/dhcp, but
> don't hold me to that), there's a conf file in there. One of the
> options is "send name to server" or something very similar to that.
# grep send /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
send host-name "othello";
_Some_ dhcp clients obey the "hostname" setting in /etc/network/interfaces.
I don't know why most never did.
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derek
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:37:18 +1100
From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
Subject: Re: No access to Gmail
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <45796A8E.7020505 at meldraweb.com>
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Richard Steinitz wrote:
> *Hi!*
> *I'm running 6.10 on an old Pentium III / 800 mhz desktop. Works
> great, but ...*
> **
> *In Firefox, I can't access Gmail. Just sits there saying "Connecting
> to Google.com..." and does nothing until it times out.*
> *In the same way, I can't 'sign it' to my personalized Google home page.*
> **
> *Any ideas why this is?
>
> Thanks*
>
>
> *Richard Steinitz - LPA Group
> **P.O. Box 1791, Ramat HaSharon 47117 ISRAEL
> **Tel: +972-9-955-6161 / Fax: +972-9-954-1585
> **E-mail: richard at LPAgroup.biz <mailto:richard at LPAgroup.biz>*
>
> **
>
> *
>
>
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
> and I'm not sure about the former.
>
> ** Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)*
>
> **
>
> *Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.*
> * George Santayana (1863 - 1952)*
>
>
> --
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> 07/12/06 1:31 PM
>
Richard,
Are you able to connect to any web pages at all? (What about
http://ubuntu.com or http://yahoo.com?)
Do other web things work? (ie, synaptic, irc)
--
Sincerely
Melissa Draper
http://www.meldraweb.com
Phone: 0404 595 395
P.O Box 1412
Lavington, NSW 2641
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:19:59 +1030
From: squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net>
Subject: Xubuntu
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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Hi all,
many thanks for Xubuntu, now have it running on an old
166 processor, 64 meg of EDO ram, and a 2.2 gig drive.
Perfectly usable, a little slow, but 5 minutes here or there
in 10,512,000 minutes approx ( figuring on around 20 years left)
is neither here or there. Reasonable as an Internet machine, and there are
thousands of similar machines around that could be using it.
Thanks again
Take Care
Winton
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Melissa:
I have no problems connecting to the web, the downloads work fine and so does Google
search. It's only (?) the Gmail and the sign-in that refuse to respond.
Thanks in advance
Richard
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