Boot-Repair

  1. Bug #1316424
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1316424

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Saurabh Rindani (saurabh-prl) wrote : Re: boot-repair does not detect existing internet connection

After reporting the bug, I found the reason why internet connection was not detected by boot-repair: The proxy had to be set differently. I had been using "Network" under "System settings" to set the proxy. However, I discovered Question #242493, whose answer said that one has to first login as root:

1. In a terminal, type “sudo su –“
2. Then type “export http_proxy=…”
3. Then type “/usr/bin/boot-repair”

In case of proxy requiring username:password authorization:

( export http_proxy=http://username:<email address hidden>:port ).

For me (using bash shell), this did not work. On the other hand, the following worked:

sudo su -
HTTP_PROXY=http://username:<email address hidden>:port
export http_proxy

That the proxy was set could be checked using the command:
env |grep http_proxy