KDDE Apps don't recognise internet

DoddyUK · 12-07-2005, 03:10 PM

KDE 3.5
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy"

At the moment, all applications except KDE-related applications such as Konqueror or AmaroK can connect to the internet. While amazon.com displays fine in Opera and Firefox, the following message is displayed in Konqueror:

An error occurred while loading http://www.amazon.com:
Could not connect to host http://www.amazon.com/.

It's even the same for connecting to the localhost apache server. While http://rei/ works fine in Opera and Firefox, yet also returns a Cannot Connect error in Konqueror.

I have no idea what's going on, as the settings in KControl seem to be pretty sound. Any ideas what's happening?

KimVette · 12-07-2005, 04:31 PM

1. Make sure you have nsswitch and lwresd installed
2. Configure your /etc/nsswitch file to read as follows for these two settings:

hosts: lwres files dns
networks: lwres files dns

3. Make sure you have lwresd starting with runlevels 5 and 3

DoddyUK · 12-07-2005, 05:07 PM

Didn't work. Though come to think of it, it's only happened since I installed KDE 3.5. I refused to allow it to overwrite any previous scripts, so I'll get it to reinstall KDE3.5 and see if that helps.

Also, here's the contents of my /etc/nsswitch.conf file:

Code:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat
group:          compat
shadow:         compat

hosts: lwres files dns
networks: lwres files dns

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis

KimVette · 12-07-2005, 05:33 PM

Do nslookup, whois, ping, and host work as expected? If you try say, telnet and ssh do they resolve correctly?

DoddyUK · 12-07-2005, 05:41 PM

nslookup works perfectly

Code:

michael@rei:~$ nslookup
> www.google.com
Server:         194.72.0.98
Address:        194.72.0.98#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.google.com  canonical name = www.l.google.com.
Name:   www.l.google.com
Address: 66.249.93.99
Name:   www.l.google.com
Address: 66.249.93.104

I just find it strange that only the KDE apps can't access the internet, as opposed to every application.

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Stranger still, FTP works perfectly. It just seems like there's a problem with the HTTP aspect of Konqueror, and KDE in general.