Internet connection?

[Colin Law]

On 19 September 2014 02:53, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> Good morning
> Running Xubuntu 14.04 (tuxtrans) on a Dell Inspiron 1545.
>
> Now that I have "solved" the update problem, I want to add one or two
> things to my fresh installation.
> However, I noticed, that the "Software Center" tries to start, but then
> simply disappears before anything can happen.
> I tried Firefox. Crashes immediately.
> (did not try the mailer yet; have not yet set up an account)
>
> But there are no error messages of any sort (except that Firefox asks
> me, whether I would like to send a crash report)
> I use wired connection. 2-3 other computers going through the same
> router have no problems.
>
> As I said above, the "update/upgrade" via a terminal command worked.
> So did the "Software update" function.
>
> What am I supposed to look for now?

I think a more meaningful subject line might have been a good idea,
since you can update from the command line the problem is likely not
to do with your internet connection.

In a terminal run
software-center
That may give some clues.  Copy/paste the result here.

Colin