software updates and pop regularly fail

[Guest glenby]

Howdy's,

I am running spring 2007.1 gnome - installed from livecd and updated.

the problem I am having is that about 1/3 of the times I try to use software

updates (or the update notification) - the downloads say they're starting but

no network activity occurs. system times out and you eventually get an error.

 

Evolution does the same - timeouts when retrieving email - no connection.

 

you can go back in straight away on both systems - and it usually works.

 

When updating it's almost as if the list for downloads is prepared and then the

script (perl I think) says "wget me the get packages" but the network isnt there

or ready at that moment and that bit of the script fails but it continues anyway.

 

Watching the network traffic monitor applet shows no traffic spike or activity.

hence, me thinking that the network connection step is missed.

 

 

any ideas?

 

everything else is great - I like it better than ubuntu

 

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update - syslog shows these very regularly.

will check for shorewall probs.

 

Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.1.1.2 DST=10.255.255.255 LEN=174 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=154

Edited May 11, 2007 by glenby

[arctic]

I also have some problems with updating and checked the status of the mirror by pinging the site and I found out that in my case, the mirror is a bit overloaded at times (especially early in the morning: 35 packets transmitted, 35 received, 0% packet loss, time 34139ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 51.582/52.358/53.467/0.486 ms on a DSL 6000 connection. A bit too slow for my tastes).

 

But as in your case, evolution also has some probs connecting anywhere, I'd say your prob is a bit different to mine. So, first question: do you have DNS servers set up and IPV6 disabled? Maybe that's the source of your problems. About disabling IPV6: Use the search-tool. There are tons of topics dealing with it.

 

And: Welcome aboard. :)

[Guest glenby]

well - I tried that - still no good.

evolution is a real pain. tried thunderbird with lightning - same problem as well.

anything networking - seems like it misses starting.

 

didnt happen with ubuntu - so I can only assume it's a mandriva thingo.

 

will keep checking.