satelliteuser083 Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 (edited) It looks as though I may have spoken too soon about solving the eth0/broadband/router problem (see Ethernet, Xircom CreditCard Ethernet), because a very strange thing is now occurring. At boot the eth0 connection is made and I start Firefox (with Sessionsaver installed); instead of finding the sites from the previous session it just grinds away with the "Loading..." message in all of the tabs and never DOES load anything. It seems to know what it wants to load but can't find the sites. I then have to reboot; generally it then works. I suppose that it could also be a Firefox bug - I seem to remember this also happening occasionally with dialup - has anyone else had a similar problem? Edited November 19, 2005 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Why reboot? Doesn't a service network restart in a root console do the same thing? The problem could be ipv.6 related, and it's certainly not a Firefox bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Type about:config in your Firefox url bar, then filter for IPV6 and make sure this is changed from False to True. Does that help any? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Do you still have a problem if Sessionsaver is disabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 disableIPV6 was, in fact, set to FALSE; I set it to TRUE, rebooted and all seems to be correct.. Thanks:) Haven't changed Sessionsaver, in fact I haven't a clue how to disable it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 For future reference, if you want to disable an extension rename or delete the extension file located in ~/.mozilla/plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Also, you don't generally have to reboot; just restart eth0 by running this in a console as root: # ifdown eth0 # ifup eth0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 (edited) Lots of feedback this time, so have packed my answers into this one reply. Thanks for the tip, daniewicz; however, in my directory-system there is no sessionsaver at ~/.mozilla/plugins, although I did find a "sessionsaver.jar" under .mozilla/firefox/3d2i91as.default/extensions/{909409b9-2e3b-4682-a5d1-71ca80a76456}/chrome Could this be part of the connection problem? Anyway, despite changing disableIPV6 to TRUE yesterday the problem re-occurred this morning :( And sadly, pmpatrick, your ifdown/ifup suggestion doesn't work if the network is DOWN following boot; could that be significant? scarecrow; your service network restart suggestion didn't work either but, when I deleted the network interface and then set it up again (in MCC ), that did Edited November 20, 2005 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 My mistake. I thought Sessionsaver was a plugin. Instead, it is an extension. We still don't know if your problem is Sessionsaver related. Are you able to surf the web using (the Sessionsaver free) Konqueror? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 When the problem re-occurred just now, I tried accessing the web with Konqueror but that was just as unsuccessful as Firefox. I also tried scarecrow's "service network restart", which shut down the network and brought it up again, as expected, but that also failed to provide access. It's as though the system is using a wrong network, i.e. one that is not connected. BTW, I've also got a telephone modem set up (as ppp0 ); could that be associated with the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Please take a look at your /etc/ppp folder. Is there a usable/redable resolv.conf textfile, or it's nonexistent/broken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Please take a look at your /etc/ppp folder.Is there a usable/redable resolv.conf textfile, or it's nonexistent/broken? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There IS a /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file, with a size of zero bytes but which can be opened with kwrite i.e. it's not locked (if that's what you mean by 'broken'). I should mention that the file's date is 10. July 2005 (In case this is of interest), a time when I was still using ppp0 for dialup.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 scarecrow: did you mean /etc/resolv.conf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 (edited) I've just spent the best part of three hours booting and restarting LE2005 on the laptop, and it looks as though the Firefox jamming is somehow associated with whether or not the latter is actually running when I shut the system down. If I DO close Firefox first, I can select either "Turn off Computer" (and then switch it back on), or "Restart Computer"; the network comes up and there is access to the web (through both Firefox and Konqueror). If, however, I do NOT close Firefox first I only have web access following "Restart Computer"; selecting "Turn off Computer" results in web-access blockage the next time I switch the machine on (in Firefox AND Konqueror). I've also noticed that, occasuionally, if I interrupt Firefox (with the Esc-key) while it is still in the process of "Loading..." any site, that action causes Firefox to jam up completely on all tabs, i.e. none of the tabs provide web access. Closing the tabs and reopening them has no effect on this jammed state. I think I'm slowly going mad Edited November 22, 2005 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 scarecrow:did you mean /etc/resolv.conf? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Dunno for pure Mandriva (as PCLinuxOS is the best shot close to Mandy that I'm using), but there the file is /etc/ppp/resolv.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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