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

2016-02-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert ... I've just sent the below to the Symform team. I

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

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert I thought the easiest thing would be to

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

2016-02-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
As Robert says, the installation process has failed as it assumed that initctl was there and probably created an upstart service but as initctl isn't available it won't work, so it's probably a case of converting the upstart service to systemctl, which I'm sure is possible but I don't know how off

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

2016-02-27 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016, at 15:53, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi Simon The 'start' command in the systemd.sh script is: > start_service() > { > systemctl start symform${1}.service > } > > systemctl is very different in its operation. The 'start' command won't > listen to a port. There

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

2016-02-27 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

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

2016-02-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
As it says, initctl is part of upstart, which has been deprecated for systemd. However, the components are still there so the script's criteria are met apart from initctl not being installed. You could comment out the first if statement in the platform script and replace the 'elif' at the start of

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

2016-02-27 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

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

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. Hi Simon I've just found http://linux-commands-examples.com/initctl It seems it isn't deprecated - just missing from recent Ubuntu releases. I'll see if I

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

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. There are a fair few of them. I might fire up 14.04 again tomorrow and see what's happening on port 59234. I've found out exactly where the problem exists. I've put

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

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

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

[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

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem .....

2013-12-15 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there ... Got a weird problem in Trusty. When booting, I get to the login screen and find I have no keyboard at quite random intervals. It boots properly an most occasions, then boots with the problem. If I get up a terminal, the keyboard works, so this is something to do with 'X' I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem .....

2013-12-15 Thread Pete Smout
@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you! sent from my HTC. On Dec 15, 2013 10:48 AM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there ... Got a weird problem in Trusty. When booting, I get to the login screen and find I have no keyboard at quite random

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem .....

2013-12-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/12/13 11:43, Pete Smout wrote: Don't know if its linked but for some unknown reason my 13.10 keeps going to American keyboard layout, event though the default is UK! No pattern and easy fix but seem strange we should both have keyboard related issue that shows its face randomly! No -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem .....

2013-12-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 December 2013 11:43, Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know if its linked but for some unknown reason my 13.10 keeps going to American keyboard layout, event though the default is UK! No pattern and easy fix but seem strange we should both have keyboard related issue that shows

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Mark Fraser
On Monday 19 Apr 2010 16:31:10 Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

2010-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Mark Fraser wrote: Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . Thanks for that. This is definitely the same bug, and it explains a whole lot of things I'm seeing. I know where to look now. Plymouth has repeatedly