Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so it won't respond to a HTTP request in a web bro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 18:21, Simon Greenwood wrote: It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might be something else on that port. On 26 Februar

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Any pointer for me in trying to solve a problem. When I attemp to install the Symform cloud software, on 15.04, when it makes a call to 127.0.0.1:59234 to register the user, Firefox comes up with a "Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:5923