firefox fails to connect

[don-bothell]

Firefox defaults to offline mode even after changing it in file
Update Manager fails when trying to get http://security-ubuntu ,,,,,,,,,
Tried removing Firefox with package manager, and reinstalling firefox..

that did not help
:(

[eriktheblu]

What is your internet connection? Do you have a direct connection to your computer or is it through a network?

[Hippytaff]

Are you able to ping anything? open a terminal and type


ping www.google.com

also what is the output of


ifconfig

[don-bothell]

I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 and Firefox for more than a month without problem. Then it started defaulting to "offline" on startup and even after
using "File" menu to kill "offline" it fails to connect.

I AM able to use Firefox without problem on the Ubuntu 8.04 on this computer.

The following is from startup with "offline" checked.

don@don:~$ ping google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com

don@don:~$ ifconfig
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MYU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 droppe:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1312 (1.3 KB) TX bytes:1312 (1.3 KB)

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The following is after removing the check from "work offline"

don@don:~$ ping google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com

don@don:~$ ifconfig
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MYU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:108 errors:0 droppe:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8320 (8.3 KB) TX bytes:8320 (8.3 KB)

[don-bothell]

Solved: At least it is fixed. Still do not know why problem arose.
The fix was to run recovery mode. Why I did not know this or get this advise is interesting !!

[Hippytaff]

Are you constantly running in recovery mode? or did you log into recovery mode and this somehow fxed the issue in normal mode?