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vitevu

Member

From: Nice, France

Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 2

Strange network problem [SOLVED]

Hello everybody,

I've been running Arch on my laptop for one year and half, and I've always been happy with it. But about two days ago network stopped working, here are the symptoms:

- The problem is present with both wired and wireless connectivity, the symptoms are the same with each method of connection.
- My network connection works flawlessly, I can access the net with another computer behind the same router.
- Ping works, both by IP and domain name, so DNS works.
- Every X app needing network connectivity pops up with "The connection was refused...".
- Pacman cannot sync with the repositories and spits error messages like this one:

connect: Cannot assign requested address
error: cannot connect to ftp.archlinux.org

Ideas are welcome...

T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Strange network problem [SOLVED]

have you upgraded procps lately? Maybe try downgrading it.

i3839

Member

Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Strange network problem [SOLVED]

What did you change two days ago?

vitevu

Member

From: Nice, France

Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 2

Re: Strange network problem [SOLVED]

Thanks for the quick replies. The problem is solved, here's what happened:

Two days ago, procps was upgraded through pacman -Syu. I've checked the changes in the CVS and it turned out that a default sysctl.conf was added to the package. I guess these defaults didn't really pleased my laptop... I simply  copied the file to sysctl.conf.bak and everything works again after a reboot.

Thanks a lot for the help.