[SOLVED] Problem with youtube, LQ, facebook,etc in -current

cesarion76 · 05-21-2013, 04:40 PM

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

Code:

bash-4.2# uname -a
Linux cesarion 3.8.13 #2 SMP Sun May 12 17:23:24 CDT 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

My hardware

Code:

bash-4.2# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2417 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5007G 802.11bg] (rev 01)
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

any help is welcome

torimus · 05-21-2013, 05:00 PM

Quote:

no access to facebook or G+, can´t play any youtube videos or similar pages

How exactly does manifest this issue ?

cesarion76 · 05-21-2013, 05:50 PM

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.

rkelsen · 05-21-2013, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cesarion76

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.

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

cesarion76 · 05-21-2013, 08:59 PM

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.

mrclisdue · 05-21-2013, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cesarion76

...This happens with firefox, seamonkey or chrome and with KDE or XFCE

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,

T3slider · 05-21-2013, 09:19 PM

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:

Code:

nameserver 8.8.8.8

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:

Code:

# chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

If at any time you do need to edit the file then you will need to reverse that with

Code:

# chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf

cesarion76 · 05-21-2013, 11:09 PM

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

/etc/hosts

Code:

# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1               localhost
127.0.0.1               cesarion.bianca.org cesarion

/etc/resolv.conf

Code:

# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 192.168.1.1

Code:

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (181.15.96.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=1 ttl=58 time=14.8 ms
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=2 ttl=58 time=15.3 ms
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=3 ttl=58 time=16.2 ms
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=4 ttl=58 time=15.1 ms
...
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=24 ttl=58 time=15.5 ms
64 bytes from host84.181-15-96.telecom.net.ar (181.15.96.84): icmp_req=25 ttl=58 time=14.6 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
25 packets transmitted, 25 received, 0% packet loss, time 24030ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.380/15.104/16.218/0.471 ms

mrclisdue · 05-22-2013, 05:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cesarion76

/etc/resolv.conf

Code:

# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 192.168.1.1

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,

cesarion76 · 05-22-2013, 06:20 PM

10.0.0.2 is my adsl modem.

mrclisdue · 05-23-2013, 05:44 AM

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:

Code:

# Generated by NetworkManager
# nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 192.168.1.1

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,

cwizardone · 05-23-2013, 10:46 AM

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.

cesarion76 · 05-23-2013, 02:45 PM

ifconfig returns this

Code:

bash-4.2# ifconfig 
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:13:8f:a3:37:1c  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether f4:ec:38:fd:24:49  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2786  bytes 2196553 (2.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2874  bytes 545126 (532.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

edited

Code:

/etc/resolv.conf

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?

manwichmakesameal · 05-23-2013, 07:34 PM

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:

Code:

nslookup domainyoucantreach

cesarion76 · 05-24-2013, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manwichmakesameal

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:

Code:

nslookup domainyoucantreach

I get this:

Code:

bash-4.2$ nslookup facebook.com
Server:         10.0.0.2
Address:        10.0.0.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   facebook.com
Address: 173.252.110.27