synaptec connection problem

Sat May 6 12:27:18 UTC 2006

Hi Darryl

Thanks for your reply

No, the proxy is set to Direct connection to internet

John

> Hi
>
> When I try to upgrade any software I get the
> following:
>
> The repository might be no longer available or could
> not be contacted because of network problems. If
> available an older version of the failed index will
be
> used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored.
Check
> your network connection and the correct writing of
the
> repository address in the preferences. Followed by a
> string of messages like this
>
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...y/Release.gpg:
> Could not connect to localhost:80 (127.0.0.1). -
> connect (111 Connection refused)

-Did you (mis)configure a proxy in synaptic?

-Check the Settings Menu -> Preferences, then the
'Network' tab...

No, this is set to _direct connection to internet_
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 00:51:24 +0200
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za>
> Subject: Re: can't install k3b -- dependency prob
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> <200605060051.24893.alan at linuxholdings.co.za>
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> 
> On Friday 05 May 2006 23:28, solemneyed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use gnome and am running breezy
> (2.6.12-10-i386).  I've tried
> > installing k3b through synaptic & command line,
> but I get this
> > (below) and don't know what to do about it.
> >
> > k3b:
> >  Depends: k3blibs but it is not going to be
> installed
> >  Depends: kdelibs4 (>=4:3.3.2-6.1) but it is not
> installable
> 
> That looks like KDE 4.
> 
> Funny that, KDE4 isn't available yet to the best of
> my knowledge
> 
> -- 
> If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
> how many people understand hex?
> 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 01:04:35 +0200
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za>
> Subject: Re: No console on Dapper
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> 
> On Friday 05 May 2006 17:48, rooreleased wrote:
> > I have the same problem as the original poster but
> i'm using stable
> > breezy - any progress?
> >
> > I have a toshiba laptop (Qosmio F20) btw.
> 
> A shot in the dark: I has something like this a long
> while back and 
> IIRC it was a frame buffer problem, the thing would
> just disconnect 
> from the tty. If you know how this area works, it
> might be worth a 
> look. I can't help further than this (no Ubuntu
> nearby to look at 
> myself and see how it's set up).
> 
> -- 
> If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
> how many people understand hex?
> 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 02:35:05 +0100
> From: "MICHAEL WEAVER"
> <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com>
> Subject: speech problem in ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> 
> Someone at my LUG burned the Dapper Beta for me and
> helped me install Ubuntu 
> along with Gnopernicus.
> However my laptop wasn't shut down properly at the
> end of the meeting and 
> when I tried to get it out of sleep mode, I may have
> pressed a few keys, 
> causing the loss of speech driver so when I logged
> into Ubuntu, instead of 
> getting speech, I had Gnopernicus running but no
> speech at all.
> Dad tried to re-install the whole thing for me but I
> think we chose the 
> wrong options as Ubuntu did install but we had the
> same problem I think 
> because we didn't get the menu up for choosing to
> install the accessability 
> options and choosing Blind user or whatever for
> installing Gnopernicus or 
> the speech driver it needs.
> I presume that there isn't a talking installation
> and that I am going to 
> have to guide a Sighted person as to how to do it
> but it isn't easy as my 
> dad and most of the people I know apart from the
> people at my LUG don't know 
> about Linux, dad is the type of person who I feel
> always wants to do short 
> cuts as he works with computers half the time so
> can't always be bothered 
> with them and I live on my own half the time.
> If I knew that I could get a spoken installation I
> would probably have it 
> done in whatever time it takes, assuming I could
> also get Gnopernicus 
> running so I could set speech in preferences before
> restarting and then 
> having it speak once I had entered my username and
> password.
> Thing is if I hadn't messed up after not knowing my
> laptop had been left in 
> sleep mode instead of logged out or had just
> switched the thing off by 
> holding the start button for a few seconds I might
> not have run into this 
> problem.
> Perhaps someone could advise me if I paste the
> information below that was 
> written about accessability in the Beta notes.
> I wrote to the Gnome accessability list but so far
> nobody has got back to me 
> on this.
> New Installation Menu
> When you first boot from the installation CD you are
> greeted with a friendly 
> shiny
> new installation menu that provides you with a very
> simple means of choosing 
> how
> to start installing Ubuntu. This new installation
> menu is powered by a very 
> flexible
> tool called gfxboot. This new gfxboot powered
> installation menu allows 
> Ubuntu to
> now provide, among other things, accessibility
> features right from the start 
> which
> 
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