Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 30/05/10 21:05, Larry Shields wrote:
> On 05/30/2010 05:27 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 30 May 2010 11:19, Larry Shields<larryesu at charter.net>  wrote:
>>    
>>> On 05/29/2010 10:51 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>      
>>>> ..
>>>>
>>>> I just came across this in another forum. Could this be what is causing
>>>> you the problem (to do with the new protocol ipv6)?:
>>>>
>>>> http://wojox.homelinux.org/?p=46
>>>>        
>>> Just too see, I went to this site to see what this was all about..I looked
>>> at my /etc/default/grub script, it appears to not even mention any line with
>>> ipv6 in it...
>>>      
>> You have to look for the line starting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and
>> add the ipv6 setting to that line as in the link.
>> Then don't forget to run sudo update-grub2 and reboot.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>    
> *Thanks Colin, guess it is to early in the morning for me lol...I 
> added it now to see if it works here on my system...
>
> Thank you for informing me to "_add_ the line as they mentioned", all 
> I did was to look at that script, no mention of ipv6, so I did not 
> need to try it...I took it the wrong way...
>
> Larry*

This fix is also associated with Firefox where Firefox may have 
difficulties connecting/staying connected to some sites. The fix for 
Firefox is to get into the config file (about:config) and toggle (to 
TRUE) the entry "network.dns.disableIPv6".

BC

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