On 20 July 2010 10:19, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 20 July 2010 10:07, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> >> >> Colin Law wrote: >> > Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user >> > add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user >> > is often useful for testing. >> > >> > Colin >> > >> > >> > >> Although my Ubuntu 9.04 has been working okay with accessing the >> Internet recently, this morning when I booted into it, again I had no >> internet access. I could not access the router, although when I looked >> at the Network Connection, it showed an IP address as well as that of >> the router, suggesting that there was no problem connecting to the >> router or for the router to connect to the Internet. >> >> So I set up a new account on Ubuntu 9.04, and logged into that. Straight >> away that user had internet access with nothing blocked, and I could >> access the router and webpages okay in Firefox. >> >> So I then switched user back to my own normal user account and then had >> access to the Internet okay. >> >> So what else should I be looking for to diagnose why my main user >> account cannot access the Internet sometimes? >> >> > > The thing that immediately came to mind when you first posted this was that > something might be setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. Some > applications that access the Internet will acknowledge this and others > don't, and if it's set to a non-existent or unreachable address, some > connectivity will fail and some will work. I found, for example, for reasons > too complex to get into now, that Google Earth will use it and that Firefox > uses its own setting, so if it happens again, open a terminal and type 'env > | grep HTTP_PROXY' and see if there's anything set for it. > Simon
The environment variable is normally specified all in lower case, i.e. http_proxy. Other than that, try Simon's suggestion. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
