[sclug] Googlemail issue on Debian

Tue Jan 15 13:04:54 UTC 2013

Houston, I have a problem.

Debian Squeeze:

For no obvious reason, I can suddenly no longer connect to GoogleMail on my
home box, using any browser of choice. It's not an obvious networking issue
per se because I can browse almost anywhere else I choose, and I can use
Googlemail on my smartphone over the same router using a WiFi connection. I
haven't changed any configuration settings myself, but I notice that Debian
updates no longer work (I get an error message whenever I try to download
and install the suggested updates - something about a malformed something
or other). These two issues may be related - but does anyone have any ideas
why this should be so? My main concern is the GoogleMail issue because my
wife is tearing her (and my) hair out as a result. ("This never happened
when we had Windows!", etc etc :-)).

Any useful suggestions appreciated. BTW I can't ping mail.google.com  and
traceroute fails to reach it as well, if that helps.

TIA

Neil

On 13 January 2013 12:00, <sclug-request at sclug.org.uk> wrote:

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>    1. Linux and secure boot (Inuka Jayasekera)
>    2. Re: Linux and secure boot (alan c)
>    3. Re: Linux and secure boot (alan c)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Inuka Jayasekera <inuka.j at gmail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:27:13 +0000
> Subject: [sclug] Linux and secure boot
> Hello,
>
> I've recently bought an Asus laptop that came with Windows 8 and secure
> boot set up. From Ubuntu's website, it looks like secure boot was available
> from 12.10 onwards. I've tried several times though to install Ubuntu 12.10
> (using the UEFI boot option and the regular boot option) and it always
> complains saying it can't read partitions during install!
>
> Has anyone tried to install Linux (especially Ubuntu) on a secure boot
> laptop and had any luck? Any advice (even if you haven't)?
>
> Thank you,
> Inuka.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:35:37 +0000
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Linux and secure boot
> On 12/01/13 20:27, Inuka Jayasekera wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've recently bought an Asus laptop that came with Windows 8 and secure
>> boot set up. From Ubuntu's website, it looks like secure boot was
>> available
>> from 12.10 onwards. I've tried several times though to install Ubuntu
>> 12.10
>> (using the UEFI boot option and the regular boot option) and it always
>> complains saying it can't read partitions during install!
>>
>> Has anyone tried to install Linux (especially Ubuntu) on a secure boot
>> laptop and had any luck? Any advice (even if you haven't)?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Inuka.
>>
>
> Recent experience on another list seemed to confirm a comment on a Ubuntu
> site that - at  least - a USB stick was required, optical media would not
> work.
> I will try to look it up
>
>
>
>
> --
> alan cocks
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:43:55 +0000
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Linux and secure boot
> On 12/01/13 20:35, alan c wrote:
>
>> On 12/01/13 20:27, Inuka Jayasekera wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've recently bought an Asus laptop that came with Windows 8 and secure
>>> boot set up. From Ubuntu's website, it looks like secure boot was
>>> available
>>> from 12.10 onwards. I've tried several times though to install Ubuntu
>>> 12.10
>>> (using the UEFI boot option and the regular boot option) and it always
>>> complains saying it can't read partitions during install!
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried to install Linux (especially Ubuntu) on a secure boot
>>> laptop and had any luck? Any advice (even if you haven't)?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Inuka.
>>>
>>
>> Recent experience on another list seemed to confirm a comment on a
>> Ubuntu site that - at  least - a USB stick was required, optical media
>> would not work.
>> I will try to look it up
>>
>
>
> Two recent related items
> 'Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9 ' (sic) it means 8
>
> long:
> http://www.google.co.uk/url?**sa=t&rct=j&q=%5Bubuntu-uk%5D%**
> 20installing%20ubuntu%20on%**20a%20machine%20with%**
> 20windows%209&source=web&cd=1&**cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=**
> http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu.5.n6.**nabble.com%2FInstalling-**
> Ubuntu-on-a-machine-with-**Windows-9-td5008367.html&ei=**
> CcrxUP3pNILB0gWa04CgAQ&usg=**AFQjCNFoDCu6qY6GaKzpKkDKDuPsxM**
> ZUvw&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.Yms<http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%5Bubuntu-uk%5D%20installing%20ubuntu%20on%20a%20machine%20with%20windows%209&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com%2FInstalling-Ubuntu-on-a-machine-with-Windows-9-td5008367.html&ei=CcrxUP3pNILB0gWa04CgAQ&usg=AFQjCNFoDCu6qY6GaKzpKkDKDuPsxMZUvw&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.Yms>
>
> Short:
> http://tinyurl.com/bng7uo4
>
>
> and
> http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/**Installing-Ubuntu-on-a-**
> machine-with-Windows-9-**td5008189i40.html<http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/Installing-Ubuntu-on-a-machine-with-Windows-9-td5008189i40.html>
>
> hth
> --
> alan cocks
>
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