[Users] Problem accessing gmail

[Geoffrey Leach]

In response to Marco's request ....
% ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp5s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel
state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:90:f5:c8:32:1a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1c:7b:a5:36:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.232/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic
noprefixroute wlp4s0
       valid_lft 2940sec preferred_lft 2940sec
    inet6 fd5e:9a9e:c5bd:10::244/128 scope global noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 2605:59c8:3170:c710::244/128 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 1149sec preferred_lft 549sec
    inet6 2605:59c8:3170:c710:e2b7:c37d:db50:2adb/64 scope global
deprecated dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 549sec preferred_lft 0sec
    inet6 fd5e:9a9e:c5bd:10:6922:7f88:740b:36ed/64 scope global
noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::fbcf:5474:d6d7:7b50/64 scope link noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

% ip -6 route show
::1 dev lo proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2605:59c8:3170:c710::244 dev wlp4s0 proto kernel metric 600 pref medium
2605:59c8:3170:c710::/64 dev wlp4s0 proto ra metric 600 pref medium
2605:59c8:3170:c700::/56 via fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39 dev wlp4s0 proto ra
metric 600 pref medium
fd5e:9a9e:c5bd:10::244 dev wlp4s0 proto kernel metric 600 pref medium
fd5e:9a9e:c5bd:10::/64 dev wlp4s0 proto ra metric 600 pref medium
fd5e:9a9e:c5bd::/48 via fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39 dev wlp4s0 proto ra
metric 600 pref medium
fe80::/64 dev wlp4s0 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium
default via fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39 dev wlp4s0 proto ra metric 600 pref
medium
% ping $(ip -6 route show |grep defau |cut -d " " -f3)
ping: Warning: IPv6 link-local address on ICMP datagram socket may require
ifname or scope-id => use: address%<ifname|scope-id>
PING fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39(fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39) 56 data bytes
^C
--- fe80::7624:9fff:feab:4c39 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:53 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 4:22 AM Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > First, I have no evidence that this is a claws-mail problem. This is NOT
> a
> > claws-mail bug report.
> >
> > That said, earlier today, my connect to google/gmail started timing out
> (4
> > min). In desperation I attempted to re-create my credentials, and hung up
> > on getting the authorization code, Firefox being unable to connect,
> >
> > That latter probably explains my timeout problem. Any suggestions on what
> > might be going wrong?
>
> Firefox was updated this week.
>
> I use Gmail. Sometimes when Firefox gets an update without a restart,
> Firefox cannot connect to websites. In Gmail I get the "trying to
> connect in NNN minutes." Closing and then reopening Firefox usually
> fixes the issue for me.
>
> I have observed the Firefox update problem with Gmail on both Windows
> and Linux. I've also experienced the problem with Firefox on Stack
> Overflow.
>
> Jeff
>