9 Apr
2009
9 Apr
'09
1:22 a.m.
Hi,
A friend has a strange problem that I have been unable to solve, so
I thought I'd canvas for suggestions here.
Since the last week or so, he has been unable to log in to Facebook
or Hotmail from Ubuntu. He has a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu 8.04
and Windows XP. He is connected via a MTNL Triband connection. Both
sites still work fine in XP. Other sites work fine in Ubuntu. He's
tried several alternate browsers besides Firefox, including Opera,
SeaMonkey, etc. but has the same problem there. Sometimes the login
page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any response.
In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but doesn't work.
In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does proceed to the
home page, but then no other links work.
I have tried googling, but no satisfactory solution showed up.
Suggestions included clearing the cache/cookies (no effect & in any
case multiple browsers makes this unlikely), changing DNS servers
(tried both MTNL & OpenDNS, and in any case they're the same servers
as set under Windows), and even checking the Java install (I really
doubt MS uses Java on the Hotmail page, but I tried it anyway).
Ping times of both sites seem normal.
Any further lines of inquiry would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chirag Wazir
http://chirag.freeshell.org
9 Apr
9 Apr
2:01 a.m.
Chirag Wazir wrote:
Any further lines of inquiry would be appreciated
So you're telling me that on the same machine he's got dual boot with XP
and Ubuntu, right? Using the same MTNL connection, the sites work fine
on XP and dont load up with Ubuntu. Hmm...maybe he should use XP... haha :)
See the reason would be some libraries on Ubuntu may have gotten
corrupted which is producing such behavior.
- Dinesh
3:24 a.m.
To be precise: (1) The website doesn't load or (2) He is just not able to
Login into the site?
Regards
Pankaj
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Chirag Wazir <wazir(a)vsnl.com> wrote:
Hi,
A friend has a strange problem that I have been unable to solve, so
I thought I'd canvas for suggestions here.
Since the last week or so, he has been unable to log in to Facebook
or Hotmail from Ubuntu. He has a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu 8.04
and Windows XP. He is connected via a MTNL Triband connection. Both
sites still work fine in XP. Other sites work fine in Ubuntu. He's
tried several alternate browsers besides Firefox, including Opera,
SeaMonkey, etc. but has the same problem there. Sometimes the login
page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any response.
In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but doesn't work.
In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does proceed to the
home page, but then no other links work.
I have tried googling, but no satisfactory solution showed up.
Suggestions included clearing the cache/cookies (no effect & in any
case multiple browsers makes this unlikely), changing DNS servers
(tried both MTNL & OpenDNS, and in any case they're the same servers
as set under Windows), and even checking the Java install (I really
doubt MS uses Java on the Hotmail page, but I tried it anyway).
Ping times of both sites seem normal.
Any further lines of inquiry would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chirag Wazir
http://chirag.freeshell.org
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7:22 a.m.
On Thursday 09 Apr 2009, Chirag Wazir wrote:
Hi,
A friend has a strange problem that I have been unable to solve, so
I thought I'd canvas for suggestions here.
Since the last week or so, he has been unable to log in to Facebook
or Hotmail from Ubuntu. He has a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu 8.04
and Windows XP. He is connected via a MTNL Triband connection. Both
sites still work fine in XP. Other sites work fine in Ubuntu. He's
tried several alternate browsers besides Firefox, including Opera,
SeaMonkey, etc. but has the same problem there. Sometimes the login
page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any
response. In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but
doesn't work. In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does
proceed to the home page, but then no other links work.
See if turning ECN off helps:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn (note whether it's 1 or 0).
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
If it's off, you could try turning it on :)
Regards,
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7:58 a.m.
On Thursday 09 Apr 2009, Raj Mathur wrote:
On Thursday 09 Apr 2009, Chirag Wazir wrote:
You could also play around with /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies . See
if one of the 4 combinations of ECN and SYN-COOKIES (S:0, E:0; S:1,
E:1; S:0, E:1; S:1, E:0) gets you to hotmail.
Why would anyone want to go to hotmail anyway? ;)
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Since the last week or so, he has been unable to
log in to Facebook
or Hotmail from Ubuntu. He has a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu 8.04
and Windows XP. He is connected via a MTNL Triband connection. Both
sites still work fine in XP. Other sites work fine in Ubuntu. He's
tried several alternate browsers besides Firefox, including Opera,
SeaMonkey, etc. but has the same problem there. Sometimes the login
page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any
response. In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but
doesn't work. In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does
proceed to the home page, but then no other links work.
See if turning ECN off helps:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn (note whether it's 1 or 0).
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
If it's off, you could try turning it on :) 
15 Apr
15 Apr
10:03 a.m.
Hey Chirag,
Quoting Chirag Wazir <wazir(a)vsnl.com>om>:
Sometimes the login
page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any response.
In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but doesn't work.
In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does proceed to the
home page, but then no other links work.
This is worth a try besides all the others suggested:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1110043.html
I have tried googling, but no satisfactory solution showed up.
FWIW, this was the first google hit (your post being the second)
http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+facebook+hotmail
My googling philosophy -- unless you know exactly what your are
searching for, try the most generic keywords and then filter/refine.
cheers,
- steve
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