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