Problem with youtube, LQ, facebook,etc in -current
 

Hi all

After switching from 14.0 to current a month ago, I´ m having problems like: no access to facebook or G+, can´t play any youtube videos or similar pages. Even can´t send this new thread from LQ (had to switch to winXP) or similar pages. This happens with firefox, seamonkey or chrome and with KDE or XFCE

Using the 3.2.29 kernel from 14.0 the problem is gone. But it ain´t current :)

My system
My hardware
any help is welcome

How exactly does manifest this issue ?

If I enter facebook.com in firefox it will quit after a moment searching. With youtube I can enter the main page and see the miniture of the videos but when I press play the counter stays at zero. The icon for loading video won´t show. In linuxquestions.org can´t do a search through the forums or post a thread. In G+ can´t enter the menus and the notifier stays blank

Forget to mention I´m using latest AlienBob flashplugin. I ´ve tryied slackbuilds package also.

Do you have any network access at all with the new kernel? Or is it just these pages which can't be seen?

Hi rkelsen,

yes I have access to the net. It ´s just those pages that I can´t see.

The rc.modules symlink was pointing to the 3.2.29 kernel but I change it to point to the correct 3.8.13 kernel modules. That didin´t solve it.

Also, now that you mention the network access, I have sbopkg installed and can´t sync to the repos.

I'm thinking along the lines of rkelsen that there's something funky going on with the network.

Can you access the sites in Konqueror?

What does /etc/hosts look like? Do you use squid or privoxy or some other proxy?

There seems to be differing opinions on whether disabling ipv6 (if you believe you don't need it) has any effect on this type of issue, but some swear by it....

You can disable ipv6 specifically in Firefox, and if that appears to correct your issue, then you can disable ipv6 system-wide. This thread may tell you how:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-ipv6-937447/

cheers,

It could be a DNS issue. Post the output of /etc/resolv.conf and see what happens when you ping google.com, for example, compared to google.com's IP address -- if it is a nameserver issue then pinging the IP will return instantly, while pinging the domain name will take time (or fail to complete). Google's public DNS server is 8.8.8.8 in case the DNS server you are currently using is not working (though if the problem is not getting a nameserver at all, then you should probably check your ISP's and/or router's settings to make sure the nameserver specified by DHCP is getting passed on properly). If you want to try Google's DNS server then you can put the following at the top of /etc/resolv.conf:
That will get overwritten when you reboot (or if you restart the networking scripts or bring down/up the interface), and specifying DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[0]="yes" in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf does not work (it does pass the right option to dhcpcd but it has no effect...). If you need to keep resolv.conf from getting overwritten (to make the modification permanent) then the following (as root) will work:
If at any time you do need to edit the file then you will need to reverse that with

With konqueror is the same thing. Disabled ipv6 in firefox, still the same.

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf

I'm not familiar with your network topology, but I'm assuming that 192.168.1.1 is the router. What is 10.0.0.2 ? Just to eliminate /etc/resolv.conf as a culprit, could you try T3slider's suggestion to substitute google's nameserver for the ones generated by NM?

cheers,

10.0.0.2 is my adsl modem.

hmmm...what's your machine's ip?

$ /sbin/ifconfig

Assuming it's in the 192.168.1.xxx subnet makes the 10.0.0.2 a bit curious since NM wouldn't be aware of the 10.0.0.xxx subnet, however I digress a touch and I'm venturing out of my league, anticipating a blindside bodycheck any moment now. (edit: nm woulld know via dhcp.)

as root, edit /etc/resolv.conf thusly:

Also, clear any caches in your browser, then give it a shot. If no difference, it reduces the chance that resolv.conf is the issue.

cheers,

There is a discussion on disabling ipv6 in this thread,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...us-4175441796/

in post #8, i referenced this link, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/We...ngSlowIPv6IPv4

Instead of blacklisting I use a simple text file named, ipv6.conf and placed it in the /etc/modprobe.d directory. That has worked very well. The file says,

options ipv6 disable=1

You may have to reboot for it to take effect.

Thanks to board member acummings for pointing me in the right direction.

ifconfig returns this

edited also disable ipv6 and still the same.

Let me point out that if using the 3.2.29 kernel in -current I can connect no
problem at all. Can it be a problem with the 3.8.13 kernel or a configuration
error in my side?

What happens if you just try to ping the websites in question? Do you get anything back? Do they resolve? What do you get when you:

I get this:

Well, if it's ONLY a problem when using the 3.8.13 kernel then it's most likely related to the kernel. You could try recompiling the 3.8.13 kernel yourself or it could just be a driver issue in the newer 3.8.13. Have you checked your logs and dmesg for any errors? Either way, if 3.2.29 is stable, works, and does everything you need then I would just stick with that for now. Maybe try the next kernel upgrade when it hits -current. If you read through enough slackware changelogs you'll notice a lot of "sticking with older kernel because newer kernel is too buggy" type of entries.

You've only answered one of my questions. What happens if you try to ping the offending domains? Do you get a response? Have you tried to change your resolv.conf?

I just installed the 3.2.45 kernel and it's all back to normal again. No issues, can play youtube videos and post to LQ :)

So I' m guessing it's the new kernel not getting along with something.

I'll check the logs

Problem with youtube, LQ, facebook,etc in -current
 

Just switched to -current (from 14.0) and still the same problem :(

I can't post to LQ from the PC, so I'm using my android phone for replays.

Used every browser (firefox, chrome, konkeror, Seamonkey) and is the same thing.

When I enter www.facebook.com it won't load the page . If I delete the cookies, the next attempt loads the page and a few updates but nothing more.

On www.youtube.com the selected video just won't play.

Going back to kernel 3.2.45 isn't an option I think.

Can this be a kernel alone problem?

Obviously they're making some changes to the google kernel/prism.

Edit: A pretty good place to look would be xtables, but you could do a diff and find out for sure.

I have no problems accessing those sites in --Current.

Try traceroute, as in

It may give you some hint as to where along the way the connection is failing.

Afterthought:

Try starting your browser from the command line, then going to the sites. It's possible some useful error messages will appear in the terminal.

# traceroute facebook.com
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Problem with youtube, LQ, facebook,etc in -current
 

runinng in console outputs this

$ firefox

(process:1779): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down

This post MAY be a duplicate. I made a post but it never showed up. Anyway, trying again:

Are there any web sites you CAN get to? You do seem to be getting DNS answers.

Can you show your route table with the "ip route show" command and the "ip route get 173.252.110.27" commands? Your empty traceroute suggests a lack of a default route. Try "ip route rep default 192.168.1.1" (assuming that is your gateway) and see if that helps.

Can you try a connection directly by ethernet instead of wifi? There might be too-small MTUs on the wifi AP.

Edit:

Also try this web page: http://slackware.slashusr.com/isos/

I had the same glib error (post #5)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175476903/

I also had problems with clementine because of glib.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...me-4175478675/

Now if you notice, one of the requirements of consolekit is dbus-glib.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...onsolekit.html

I'll leave the rest to conjecture...

maybe it's a problem with your gateway/router: please post the present output of
and

That is very odd outpuf to traceroute, as it does not identify any of the hops.

I would expect to see something like this:

I found a thread on the Ubuntu forums about this sort of uninformative output from traceroute and it suggested trying the following; you may need root privileges to do this:

Problem with youtube, LQ, facebook,etc in -current
 

This seems to print something:

I think there's something wrong with your network configuration: have you configured it in more than one way? If you use network manager you shouldn't add any configuration to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf or other files.
I say this because I see double routes in your routing table...

you said that your adsl modem is 10.0.0.2, but it seems your gateway, that also seems to give you your address and through which your traffic seems to flow, is 192.168.1.1: which kind of device is this? can you describe your network topology a little bit deeper?

I 'd managed to reinstall the stock (14.0) kernel 3.2.29 with the respective modules, along side the 3.10.12 from current. Booting in to kernel 3.2.29 an the problem is gone, can enter youtube and facebook again. And again I can post to LQ :)

Running some of the command previously given I noticed this:

kernel 3.2.29 (Slack 14.0)
kernel 3.10.12 (Slack -current)
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf is unedited. It 's all configured through Network Manager.

10.0.0.2 is my ADSL modem
192.168.1.1 is my wireless

to me it seems these two are not normal: check if you activated some special options in network manager (I cannot be of much help with its configuration as I don't use it).

could be also something related to your wireless chipset that doesn't work well with your wireless router with recent kernels trying to associate with it using the 802.11n protocol instead of g, found some similar reports: try to switch to 802.11g for connecting.

ath5k driver suspected to be the problem
 

Still using kernel 3.2.29 on slack14.1 to access websites, but... :)

After a long time I've found this funky thing with ath5k driver happening with 3.2.17 through 3.14.4 -current kernel, maybe some of you can nail this.

Running 3.2.29 kernel using the following commands

and Print out this

No error and the access to all websites works

Now, with 3.10.17 through 3.14.4 kernel

the same commands prints this

Can it be some kind of driver or kernel error?

PS: I' ve posted in this old thread instead of starting a new one. If some moderator thinks this topic needs a new one please let me know. THX

Just changed my adsl modem and the problems are gone. Full on speed and connections with the offending domains are ok. So this is solved, at last! :)