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Using a laptop on the same connection, I can log in no problem... but my desktop cannot. I've tried with loads of browsers but none of them can get in. I get as far as the log in page but when I try to log in, it just goes blank and times out.
I've flush all the browsers, cache, dns, system dns, flushed the router (even though it's not the problem, but it was worth a try)... everything I can think of.
Then only thing I can think of that might have caused this is the fact that I tested an alpha release of Chromium for Ubuntu (I'm using Ubuntu 32 bit). I've removed it with synaptic but no joy.
Can anyone come up with anything else I could try? I'm going bonkers now.
I had a similar glitch with my email system recently after an OpenSSL update and had to make some changes to the tls server.
[edited by: Asia_Expat at 8:28 pm (utc) on July 3, 2009]
You're probably hacked then which would stop certain things from working if they installed a rootkit.
[edited by: incrediBILL at 8:52 pm (utc) on July 3, 2009]
I've tried FF, Opera, WINE IE, and Arora.
Google pings fine... just can't log in to anything there.
Additionally, pinging Google doesn't mean you can ping their SSL server, totally different beast.
Try this command to test connecting to Google SSL:
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect www.google.com:443
Should say CONNECTED if it works.
CONNECTED(00000003)
{long pause here}
didn't found starttls in server response, try anyway...
32618:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:188:
Try this, it's the proper command:
openssl s_client -connect www.google.com:443 -state
If it works it should spit out a lot of text including the Google SSL Cert.
Not sure that would cause the browser to fail as the browsers include their own certificate.
I'll poke around a bit and see if I can find anything useful regarding that issue.
BTW, you sure you wiped out all Google cookies?
I wonder, how can I use a terminal to make sure EVERYTHING from the alpha release of Chrome is gone? Maybe that's not the problem but it's worth a try... I'm bordering on a fresh install of Ubuntu now... drastic, but what else is there to do? :-(
I use Firefox on Linux and I am able to login fine.
You really don't need AV on Linux, its that good. A simple firewall (default lokkit on Fedora) is all you need. Even that is for the paranoid.
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You really don't need AV on Linux, its that good. A simple firewall (default lokkit on Fedora) is all you need. Even that is for the paranoid.
Let's not lead people into a false sense of security.
If Linux was "that good" why are Linux servers, even the most hardened, hacked all the time?
Most of the virus programs in email and such are aimed at Windows which is why a Linux desktop seems "that good".
Security by obscurity is a only a false sense of security.
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[edited by: FrostyMug at 11:15 pm (utc) on July 4, 2009]
I STILL CAN'T LOG IN!
I've also noticed that when searching Google web search, I've started getting the 'You are a bot' page often and I have to input a code to continue... I wonder if my mac address is somehow getting blocked over at Mountain View.
I can still log in with my notebook.
I think I'd better write to an Adwords rep... something is very wrong here.
Now my hairline has receded due to excessive facepalming, I've figured it out. I was using the DNS servers of dnsadvantage in my router. These were in iptables in Linux. Removing them from my router, shutting down iptables, restarting the system... I can now log into my Google accounts...
It wasn't stopping my notebook connecting, so I wonder why iptables was having difficulty?
I really need to be using these DNS servers because my ISP here in Thailand is cr@p.
[edited by: Asia_Expat at 5:34 pm (utc) on July 5, 2009]
I'll test with some other DNS servers when I have time.
