jaunty - unable to access various websites

[pompeyjohn]

This is really wierd.

I have been working on this for most of the day, scoured this forum and googled the best I could. In desperation I now turn to you all. I hope someone can help.

So I installed jaunty 32 on a system that previously had vista running on it. [A sony Vaio laptop]. The install was a complete wipe of the drive. i.e. no shared partitions or multi-boot scenarios.

Upon logging into Ubuntu I run firefox and start some casual browsing. Some pages load fine, some just dont load at all. I get no error message, the page appears to be continuing to load - but nothing ever shows.

This also happens with Epiphany and Opera.

Here are three of the pages that are effected

www.reddit.com
www.facebook.com
https://www.amazon.com/gp/sign-in.html

So my first thought was that this was something to do with java/javascript. Just in case I installed the java binaries suggested in add/remove programs. After restart - no change.

My second thought was that this could be to do with ipv6. I have heard of issues with this protocol in the past so looked into disabling it. I am not sure I ever managed to successfully get it disabled despite following several guides on here. This could be the issue, and I am going to try and try again to disable ipv6 now. I really dont know enough about networking though to know if I am wasting my time going down this route though.

I have just confirmed that the router I am using linksys/cisco rv042 is not the issue as vista shows all those pages fine. I am running ubuntu LIVE from a USB pen drive at the moment.

What I am thinking is this *has* to be something low level in Ubuntu. I never had this problem with previous Ubuntu builds. Can anyone help me resolve this??

Many thanks in advance,
John

[halovivek]

HI
Please check whether you have installed the flash player and ubuntu restricted extras has been installed in your system.
I had the same problem. I have reinstalled the ubuntu restricted extras and flash player and it is doing good now.

[pompeyjohn]

Thanks for the reply.

So I have gone ahead and installed to the hard drive so no longer running LIVE. All I have done since the install is to let the update manager run.

Also, I installed th extras and flash plugin that you suggested.

Problem remains :(

[pompeyjohn]

this is driving me crazy

[alphacrucis2]

Thanks for the reply.

So I have gone ahead and installed to the hard drive so no longer running LIVE. All I have done since the install is to let the update manager run.

Also, I installed th extras and flash plugin that you suggested.

Problem remains :(

Do the sites that you can't connect to resolve? e.g from the terminal try


dig www.facebook.com

etc. dig will tell you at least if the names are resolving via the dns. By the Way I don't think this is a general jaunty problem as I haven't seen this before and it does work ok for me. Must be something specific to your setup.

[pompeyjohn]

Thanks alpha - here is the result of dig www.facebook.com


; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2 <<>> www.facebook.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23554
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com. 13 IN A 69.63.184.143

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.facebook.com. 90 IN NS glb01.ams1.tfbnw.net.
www.facebook.com. 90 IN NS glb01.sf2p.tfbnw.net.
www.facebook.com. 90 IN NS glb01.lhr1.tfbnw.net.
www.facebook.com. 90 IN NS glb01.ash1.tfbnw.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
glb01.lhr1.tfbnw.net. 3337 IN A 69.63.191.91
glb01.sf2p.tfbnw.net. 1084 IN A 69.63.176.101
glb01.ams1.tfbnw.net. 3451 IN A 69.63.191.219
glb01.ash1.tfbnw.net. 5331 IN A 69.63.185.11

;; Query time: 16 msec
;; SERVER: 24.25.5.60#53(24.25.5.60)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 28 03:28:17 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 223

[pompeyjohn]

running firefox from the terminal generates no output on these pages

I know this might not seem like an installation issue - but this is on a completely clean vanilla install, and a machine I have proven works with previous ubuntu's.

[alphacrucis2]

Well that's definitely not a dns issue then.

[alphacrucis2]

Found this report. May be related:


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/367965

[pompeyjohn]

Thanks alpha, this is really appreciated

yeah that report looks similar.

initially i thought it was not a flash issue because I dont remember the amazon login process using flash.... but I guess there must be.

Well I have done complete removals and reinstalls of flashplugin-nonfree but nothing seems to have changed.

I have also just confirmed that this happens in seamonkey.

[pompeyjohn]

This could be irony - I cant get to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ either

[alphacrucis2]

This could be irony - I cant get to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ either

I wonder why it works for me? My setup was installed at alpha 6 and I just installed the updates as they arrived so must be different in some way to a fresh install of the final release. Maybe a config file?

[alphacrucis2]

Just a thought. Does the direct link work for you:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_Linux_(.deb)

[evangotte]

Hi

I had a similar problem to yours. I'm not sure if same websites were effected, but the ones I tried either had nothing displayed where Flash-player should be, or a big grey "Play" style button, which did nothing once clicked.

After searching around, I found this blog:
http://bugfixbug.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/ubuntu-flash-does-not-work/
which solved the problems I was having.

Let us know.

Evan

[pompeyjohn]

Just a thought. Does the direct link work for you:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_Linux_(.deb)

nope that times out! Grrr

Do you know how to frame that as a wget? That could work