[absolutezero1287]

I'm on Ubuntu 7.10

I wanted to use a proxy and decided to install Tor and Privoxy. Everything went good for a while. I was on the net anonymously and everything. Until I wanted to install Vidalia. I had to compile it from it's source. When I tried to get the needed packages (qt4-dev-tools and qt4-designer) I got an error saying that there was some type of connection error. I figured that this had to do with Tor. So after tinkering for a few hours I decided it best to uninstall Tor and Privoxy. I did just that, rebooted and tried my luck with Synaptic again. It didn't work. Uninstalling Tor should have done the trick but it didn't. Can anyone help?

[leroys1000]

Your proxies may have set your network IP to the local host IP.
Make sure your network connection is set to obtain the IP by dhcp.

[absolutezero1287]

Can you tell me how to do that exactly?

I don't understand why Tor's settings were still in place even after the uninstall. When I use Synaptic I get an error message that say, couldn't not connect to localhost: 4001 and I know that that's tor. But why did it stay like that?

[absolutezero1287]

That's what the error message said.

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tu3.1_i386.deb
Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)

[leroys1000]

Yeah,that's what it did.
I don't have ubuntu installed but you should be able to
click on system on the menu go to administration and click netwoking.
Click your connection and click properties.
It will give you a selection there.

[absolutezero1287]

Here's a screenshot of the network settings tool. Which one do I change?

[leroys1000]

Click on the connections tab.
Should show your connection there.

[absolutezero1287]

Here's the connections tab, although you can't do much here....

[leroys1000]

Well,here's a guess.
Your setup is different than I have on my flashdrive.
I would have to say that the frankenputer connection would be the local network connection.
Go back to the hosts tab.
Check it's properties and set it obtain IP by dhcp.
It should bring it back up.
The local host IP is correct and that connection has been set to the same IP.
The other IP's are for internal use by the operating system.

[absolutezero1287]

Ok, I went to the hosts tab and configured my computer to use my ACTUAL IP instead of localhost. Now that I did it it seems so obvious. *feels like an idiot*

This has happened to more than one person. I hope that this thread becomes a guide of some sort.

Here's a link to some threads about it on Ubuntu forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=182018
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...47#post4136647

[leroys1000]

What had me confused was the frankenputer stuff.
Apparently,you have a different version than I do and you
installed with the default computer name rather than setting one of your own.
Seems like I have seen frankenputer before but didn't pay attention.
Glad you got it back up.