Question #76099 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/76099
Tom proposed the following answer: Ok, now we are going to edit the "/etc/hosts" file so the first step in a terminal console is to type cd /etc sudo cp hosts hosts.110709 ls hosts.110709 "ls" is lower-case "LS" as always and will hopefully show you that the new file has been created. If it has then continue with sudo gedit hosts and copy what's in that file into here for us to have a look at. I think the first 2 lines will look something like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 elcot-laptop although it should also be ok if it has 127.0.0.1 localhost elcot-laptop 127.0.1.1 elcot-laptop I think it shows the first one if you are part of a network and the second one if you don't ever connect to a local area network (Lan). Hopefully this should be fairly easy to sort out now but i have a feeling we might have to edit this file by going through "recovery mode" and then choosing "drop to a root shell", which would mean using the "vim" text-editor instead of "gedit", not someting i'm looking forwards to but it is quite a good editor - just very different. Sooner or later we will both have to get used to vim but hopefully not today ;) Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
