strange myspace problem

[heylookitsmewow]

I am running feisty and as of a few days ago whenever I go to myspace I can navigate through a few pages and then nothing will connect to the internet for a couple minutes. I can surf any other website all day long without this problem but as soon as I go to myspace and get a few pages into it nothing on my computer will access the internet. When I try to go to any website or click on any link while this is happening it will just sit there waiting for the internet to respond until it all clears up a couple minutes later and then the internet works fine. Until I click on a myspace link again and then it all happens again. I use Swiftfox but Konqueror does the same thing. If I log into windows on this same computer I have no problem with myspace.

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

When you use Windows, what browser are you using? Firefox, same as Kubuntu, or something different (like IE)? I'm no HTML engineer, but if I understand what I hear from them, there are web sites "optimized" for IE, meaning they use some non-standard HTML tags that other browsers don't interpret very well, if at all.

I have no clue what the issue is, but to be sure it's only happening within the browser, you could open a Konsole window first, and run

top

there, and then browse to myspace.com and see what happens in top.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

On Windows I tried IE and Firefox and myspace works nicely on both. On Kubuntu myspace never worked as good as on windows but good enough. That is until a few days ago when all this started. I tried entering "top" in Konsole and it was doing it's thing but I have no idea what I am looking for.

Last night I started having more problems. First thing I noticed, when I open Swiftfox it can't find the mozilla home page. Some websites it can find some it can't and the ones that can are downloading very slow. Sometimes part of a page will show up but some don't, such as pictures or banners. So I went to Automatix and removed Swiftfox and all the plugins I could think of. I reinstalled Swiftfox but the problems are still there. When I tried to reinstall the plugins for swiftfox it hangs up on "resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com"" and says it can't be found. I try macromedia.com in swiftfox and it can't find it either. What is going on here? On the same computer things are working fine with windows.

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

So I went to Automatix and removed Swiftfox

It doesn't seem that it should be related to your browser issues, but I have read reports of all kinds of funny results from using Automatix, such that I dropped it a long time ago. It definitely messes with your sources list, and sometimes other things on your system.

The fact that your issues all seem to center around browsers and web sites is probably significant, although it's not obvious to me exactly what's wrong.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

I installed it all with Automatix many months ago and it's all been working fine until now. Whatever is going on is making Kubuntu pretty much useless to me on the ineternet so I am about to just reinstall the whole thing since I have no idea what to do from here. Any last suggestions?

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

What is your hardware? Are you thinking of installing Gutsy?

If I were you, I would skip Automatix -- you haven't named anything yet that you can't get from the standard repos + Medibuntu.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

I have an acer aspire 5610 laptop. I don't have gutsy on disc now so I was thinking of reinstalling feisty. I haven't read much into gutsy.

Do you think reinstalling anything and reinstalling anything with the standard repos might help the problem?

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

I have an acer aspire 5610 laptop. I don't have gutsy on disc now so I was thinking of reinstalling feisty. I haven't read much into gutsy.

The only reason I asked is, there are apparently some folks with ATI SIS sound chips that have lost their sound with Gutsy. But I doubt that Acer has that kind of sound chip.

Do you think reinstalling anything and reinstalling anything with the standard repos might help the problem?

Well, if you can un-install Automatix, and then remove the browser packages, you'll probably need to fix your /etc/apt/sources.list file to undo the damage that Automatix did. But all of that would be substantially quicker than a re-installation, so maybe it's worth a shot.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

Sounds like it would be worth a shot to me too. Now that I have removed automatix and all and have /etc/apt/sources.list open how do I fix it?

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

It's hard for me to describe, but if you just do

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

and look at the repository lines in it, down toward the bottom you'll probably see some lines that don't "fit the pattern" - they don't look like the main ubuntu ones above. Those are the ones that need to be commented out.

If you post it I'll take a look and try to help.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

I am not for sure but it does kind of change toward the bottom but I am not sure exactly where. I am guessing at:

"# deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main"

But just to be sure here is the whole thing.


#
# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 7.04 _Feisty Fawn_ - Release i386 (20070417)]/ feisty main restricted

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 7.04 _Feisty Fawn_ - Release i386 (20070417)]/ feisty main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
# deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

First make a backup of the sources.list file as-is. You can pop open a Konsole window and paste this in to do the job quickly:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_bak_31OCT07

Then you can simply delete all these lines:

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END

Save it, and you can be done worrying about what Automatix is up to.

Medibuntu recently changed their URL, and I am not certain whether that last line is still valid or not. If you're in doubt (like me), go to their web site and paste in the 2 command that they give you to set their repositories up.

Then you can mark Firefox or Swiftfox for installation, and see what changes. Good luck.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

I did all of that except for this part, I don't know what command those would be or were to paste them on their website.

Medibuntu recently changed their URL, and I am not certain whether that last line is still valid or not. If you're in doubt (like me), go to their web site and paste in the 2 command that they give you to set their repositories up.

I tried deleting that medibuntu line from sources.list and there is still no change with or without the line.

[dibl]

Re: strange myspace problem

OK, sorry for being obtuse. :P

Assuming you have Firefox or Swiftfox installed and running, go to this web site:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Scroll down the page to "Adding The Repositories" and then to the "Feisty" line, and paste that command that looks like this:

sudo wget [url]http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list[/url] -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

into a console window.

Then open Kmenu>System>Adept Package Manager, and click "Fetch" to refresh the package list.

That's it -- I just wanted to make sure you've got the correct Medibuntu repo as it recently changed.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: strange myspace problem

Your obtuseness is forgiven.

I did all that and once again reinstalled firefox from Adept. The problems are still there. While installing Adept said there was an error installing j2re1.4. I wish I would have wrote down what the exact error was but it said something like a broken package and breaking a package. Then I went into Adept I went to the show details which had the following. I don't know if it is relevant to anything but here it is:


Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Preconfiguring packages ...
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
j2re1.4 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
Selecting previously deselected package j2re1.4.
(Reading database ... 103313 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking j2re1.4 (from .../j2re1.4_1.4.2.02-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout' during global destruction.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/j2re1.4_1.4.2.02-1ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 3
Selecting previously deselected package firefox.
Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/j2re1.4_1.4.2.02-1ubuntu3_i386.deb