Internet: browsers fails to connect to SOME sites, not all, for no reason.

[Nils Kassube]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> The problem is that now, 75% of the time, when I enter a URL in the web
> browser, it says it can't find the site.

Which browser? What is the exact error message?

> So to me it's got to be some system file in Ubuntu that got screwed up
> due to the power cut...

Unless you were just getting updates it is unlikely that system files 
would be changed.

> so my only choice right now is to re-install 
> Ubuntu completely to start from a clean sheet, hoping it would fix the
> problem ! :-/ I would like to avoid doing this, as it would take time
> to reconfigure my system, re-install programs etc.

That's understandable. I would first try to use another browser. I suppose 
you have trouble with firefox now, so try any of the other browsers 
(dillo, konqueror, opera, ...) and if that works, reinstall firefox (or 
whatever browser you are using now).

> Ah, among the sites it fails to connec to, is my e-mail
> provider.. so I am having to write this e-mail from my Windows XP
> virtual machine, this is agony, please help me ! ;-)

So you can't use an email program either? Or can you only use web-mail?


Nils