On Friday 25 February 2022 02:10:11 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote: > Now here's another puzzle. I don't know if it's related to my previous > question about unwanted visitors in top, but I decided that I ought to > start a new thread. > > I managed to get rid of those pesky unwelcome visitors, and imagined that I > was on the way to having a machine that actually does what I want. > > All of a sudden, most of my browsers will not launch at all. I even went on > a spree, and downloaded lots of different browsers, just to try them out > (and to see if I could get anything to connect to the Internet). Thus far I > have installed urf, surf-raw, netsurf, netsurf-gtk, midori, epiphany > chromium, icecat, links2, lynx, elinks, vivaldi-snapshot, seamonkey and > palemoon. Firefox is of course already installed by default. > > My regular browsers are icecat (to block everything that's unwanted) and > palemoon (for when I am blocked from sites such as archive.org, etc.). I > also use seamonkey for only one thing, which is a small blog that I don't > really maintain much any more, but still like to check in. And I generally > use vivaldi-snapshot for all my "business"-type stuff, where I must use a > direct connection. > > Until now, this system worked just fine, both on my desktop computer and > (since early December) on this laptop. Now, suddenly, only palemoon will > load at all, and I am blocked from archive.org. The only thing that I have > changed is to remove non-free and contrib from the lines in my > sources.list, since networking has worked fine without any non-free > software. > > And by the way, this is not, strictly speaking, off-topic, because it > probably concerns tdenetworkmanager, or something like that. > > Everything else that I've tested, so far, works okay. I can connect to the > internet, I can send and receive emails, I can download stuff. When I check > top, these browsers don't even seem to load. It's not like they start > loading then crash; they don't even show up on top. > > I am about to try an upgrade. And if that doesn't work, to add non-free and > contrib to my sources ... but I would really rather not do that, since it > seems like it ought to work without them. > > Help, please! Any suggestions are welcome. Even snide comments and jokes > would be a relief. > > Bill > > > > ____________________________________________________ 1. reboot your modem/router/ etc 2. reboot your box 3. open a root terminal and enter dhclient eth0 -v (or equivalent for your distro) and see what it says (assuming there's still a problem). Another box test: 1. see if you can connect to the net using the same cable on another box Onto mechanical errors: 1. check your cables for damage 2. try new cables ISP: 1. call your ISP and see if they're having an outage. Kate The Great Potato Overlord ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
