Re: [PLUG] Connection through proxy stopped working after 16.04 → 16.10 upgrade

[ac <ac@main.me>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:01:49 -0400
"K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Andre for helping me figure this out. It was the
> systemd-resolved service. I stopped it, and network connections work.
> And now on to the next problem: in a dual monitor setup (laptop
> screen + external), there is no taskbar in the external monitor.
> 
pleasure dude, how do you mean no taskbar? at the bottom? Mine is
the same, I always figured it was a feature, since my 2nd screen res is
boxlike :) 

Andre

> 
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:46 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have so far upgraded three Ubuntu 16.04 laptops to 16.10. Two of
> > them were personal machines, and one a work machine which I
> > upgraded at home over the weekend. In all three cases, the upgrade
> > itself went smoothly (as I have come to expect of Ubuntu upgrades)
> > with the only artifact being on my work laptop where 16.10 rendered
> > the fonts bigger, which I addressed by backing the sizes down.
> >
> > At work, machines get to the outside world via a proxy server that
> > requires authentication, which I implement on my laptop in two
> > ways: cntlm for desktop use, and with /etc/apt/apt.conf for apt
> > (they use different accounts). Neither worked. A browser configured
> > to use cntlm reported that cntlm could not reach the proxy server,
> > and apt reported that it could not resolve the name of the proxy
> > server. However, nslookup of the proxy server name reported its IP
> > address.
> >
> > After booting the laptop into the 16.04 partition, both ways of
> > going through the proxy server work perfectly, with no
> > configuration change. [As I have described in another thread, any
> > machine I setup has two bootable partitions, and when I upgrade, I
> > leave the original root partition untouched so I can go back and
> > forth as needed.]
> >
> > I am at a loss as to where to begin troubleshooting. It's as if
> > something in 16.10 is preventing processes from using a proxy
> > service, but that makes no sense: firstly why would it do that, and
> > secondly, how could it do it?
> >
> > Googling does not find anything relevant. Thanks in advance for any
> > suggestions.
> >
> > Regards
> > -- Bhaskar
> >

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