Graphical Programs Can't Access Network

Pink Floyd · 04-19-2007, 09:17 AM

I first had this problem in Ubuntu 3.10 and switched to Kate OS III in order to avoid it but the problem has followed me.

It seems to be a problem with recently released distros.

I can ping www.google.com and I am posting this message from lynks web browser but absoluteley no graphical programs can access the network, not firefox not the package manager nothing.

Any Ideas?

registering · 04-19-2007, 10:00 AM

What distro are you running? Are you in X using a GUI window manager, like Gnome or KDE? If you start firefox on the command line, what output does it give? Does /var/log/messages show any errors msgs?