Fedora Issues

Archived from groups: alt.games.starsiege.tribes (More info?)

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:26:08 -0500, Smeghead wrote:

> Alright, Linux guru's, I have a problem.
>
> I ran some updates. My kernel was updated. And Firefox was updated.
>
> After I rebooted, I cannot pull a webpage. Not in Firefox, or the
> other two browsers on the system.
>
> I can ping out. I get name resolution. But it's as if the port the
> browser's on is blocked.
>
> I enter an address, hit enter. A flicker of activity on the throbber
> and "done" no page. Not an error. Just "done" in the lower left. As if
> I've just downloaded a blank page.
>
> Any ideas? All help will be gratefully accepted!

What did you set your security levels to? What errors do you get if you
run Firefox from a terminal window?

--
"You're not afraid of the dark are you?"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1(and a half)

Archived from groups: alt.games.starsiege.tribes (More info?)

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:26:08 -0500, "Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Alright, Linux guru's, I have a problem.
>
>I ran some updates. My kernel was updated. And Firefox was updated.
>
>After I rebooted, I cannot pull a webpage. Not in Firefox, or the
>other two browsers on the system.
>
>I can ping out. I get name resolution. But it's as if the port the
>browser's on is blocked.
>
>I enter an address, hit enter. A flicker of activity on the throbber
>and "done" no page. Not an error. Just "done" in the lower left. As if
>I've just downloaded a blank page.
>
>Any ideas? All help will be gratefully accepted!

Problem solved. My old 30 gig Western Digital rolled snake eyes. So
I've been rebuilding things to my liking.

I'm also taking the opportunity to burn the ISO's for Core 4 and start
over all nice and minty fresh on a drive more than twice the size of
my old one.