Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert ... I've just sent the below to the Symform team. I ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert I thought the easiest thing would be to attac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
As Robert says, the installation process has failed as it assumed that initctl was there and probably created an upstart service but as initctl isn't available it won't work, so it's probably a case of converting the upstart service to systemctl, which I'm sure is possible but I don't know how off

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016, at 15:53, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi Simon The 'start' command in the systemd.sh script is: > start_service() > { > systemctl start symform${1}.service > } > > systemctl is very different in its operation. The 'start' command won't > listen to a port. There doesn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
As it says, initctl is part of upstart, which has been deprecated for systemd. However, the components are still there so the script's criteria are met apart from initctl not being installed. You could comment out the first if statement in the platform script and replace the 'elif' at the start of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. Hi Simon I've just found http://linux-commands-examples.com/initctl It seems it isn't deprecated - just missing from recent Ubuntu releases. I'll see if I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. There are a fair few of them. I might fire up 14.04 again tomorrow and see what's happening on port 59234. I've found out exactly where the problem exists. I've put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so it won't respond to a HTTP request in a web bro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
On 26/02/16 18:21, Simon Greenwood wrote: It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might be something else on that port. On 26 Februar

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

2016-02-26 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Any pointer for me in trying to solve a problem. When I attemp to install the Symform cloud software, on 15.04, when it makes a call to 127.0.0.1:59234 to register the user, Firefox comes up with a "Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:5923