iceweasel 9.01 / web browsers + remaster.sh

Dave · posted: 2012-01-03 03:38

I am not sure if this is in the right"area" of the forum, I apologize if it is not.
I have installed gnome-ppp from testing (as I have built from core using the testing repos), then upgraded iceweasel to 9.01 in sid. After the upgrade (and a reboot), I have lost all ability to view any webpage, it will not leave about:home or the new tab page. I have downgraded back to 8.0 in testing, ( my previous working version ) but it still does the same thing. I do not know what changed with iceweasel (or depends) however it affects iceape, firefox, chromium (accesses http, but not https), and remaster.sh (unable to connect to anything web related). If I go to the mozilla website and download firefox version 9 tarball, extract it and run the contained binaries all works fine. I am ok with running the web browser like this, however I do wish to have remaster.sh working again.

If anyone has any ideas as to what may be the common link among these applications or other suggestions / comments, it would be greatly appreciated.

Dave

Dave · posted: 2012-01-03 19:38

okay, I went through the dependency listings from the debian repository web page, for each dependency I had used synaptic and marked for reinstallation. The webbrowser problem was fixed after reinstalling the dependencies for xulrunner-8.0. __{{emoticon}}__ This was a good sign, but sadly web activity with remaster.sh is still broken (apt).

I would like to go through the dependencies of remaster.sh in the same manner, however I do not know them. Anybody that knows the dependencies please let me know.

Dave

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-01-03 20:16

What message do you get when running remaster.sh to show it is broken?

Dave · posted: 2012-01-03 20:31

cannot give the exact error right now, however when doing apt-get update in remaster.sh chroot the output is similar to
0% *.debian.com testing main
0% *.debian.com testing main
Error cannot connect......
Error cannot contact *.debian.com testing main
apt errror

The computer is connected to the internet, and successfully completes apt-get update *outside* of the remaster.sh chroot.

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-01-03 20:43

Maybe connected to resolv.conf in /etc/? In chroot, run ceni or dhclient again. Do the same in your normal environment as well.

Dave · posted: 2012-01-03 22:45

ceni fails to connect /bring up the interface in chroot both eth0 and wlan0, normal environment works as it should for both eth0 and wlan0.

EDIT Noticed gnome-ppp breaks resolvconf, so I have removed gnome-ppp / depends according to apt history and reinstalled resolvconf, then reran a fresh remaster of antix core, same problem.

EDIT#2 Rebooted for good measure, still the same.

Dave · posted: 2012-01-04 23:24

ok booted the computer up today and connected to the internet using ceni. In the ceni output I noticed that it had a warning stating that /etc/resolv.conf was not a symbolic link to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf. Made the link, rebooted / reconnected, fired up a new remaster session, ran dhclient and all is working again. __{{emoticon}}__

dhclient does need to be run every time, but it is not a big problem. I am happy to have it working again.

Now I have a seccond question, since gnome-ppp and resolvconf conflict, how would I go about installing them so that remaster.sh is not messed up again. I know that the full version of antiX has gnome-ppp and remaster.sh works, so it must be possible __{{emoticon}}__ .

Thanks for the help anti,
Dave