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Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused

From	R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused
Date	2026-06-13 15:41 +0200
Organization	To protect and to server
Message-ID	<110jmmf$1q501$1@paganini.bofh.team> (permalink)
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Daniel70 wrote:
> On 13/06/2026 4:19 am, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> R Daneel Olivaw wrote on 6/12/2026 1:12 PM:
>>> Hank Rogers wrote:
>>>> frg wrote on 6/11/2026 1:27 PM:
>>>>> Hank Rogers wrote:
>>>>>> Ant wrote on 6/11/2026 11:08 AM:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My SM v2.53.23 (User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; 
>>>>>>> x64;
>>>>>>> rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23 Build
>>>>>>> identifier: 20251124114742) showed me "Update Failed ... Connection
>>>>>>> refused" a few minutes ago, automatically and manually. :(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ was fine. I assume it is the 
>>>>>>> update
>>>>>>> server. What about the rest of you?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for reading and answering soon. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe it's because you're already running the latest version 
>>>>>> (2.53.23) ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Update Server problem. The next Beta is done and I hope ewong fixes 
>>>>> this then too when he configures it.
>>>>>
>>>>> frg
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Seamonkey's update has never worked right for me, or it's been so 
>>>> very long I've forgotten it working. I'm not sure why this is, but 
>>>> it doesn't really matter because new updates are announced here and 
>>>> other places, so I know if it's time to visit seamonkey.org and get 
>>>> the new version.
>>>
>>> It stopped working for years, but that got fixed a couple of years 
>>> back and - depending on your settings - the update can happen 
>>> automatically, you can be told that there is an update or nothing 
>>> happens at all.
>>>
>>> That all applies to Windows setups, it's controlled via Preferences > 
>>> Advanced > Software Installtion.  On my Windows machine, I have it 
>>> set to check daily, it then informs me that there's a new level.  
>>> There's also a "Check for Updates" under Help.
>>>
>>> My Linux machines do not have that option, presumably they've been 
>>> compiled that way.  No idea about the Apple world.
>>
>> Yeah, it don't work on my machine.  Maybe it's because seamonkey isn't 
>> installed on the C: drive.  I've thought about a lot of other things, 
>> but it's really not worth putting in a lot of effort to track it down.
>>
> My SeaMonkey IS installed on the C: (only windows drive I have a.t.m.) 
> and I've just tried Help -> Check for Updates and got an "Update Failed" 
> screen. Apparently the 'SeaMonkey could not be updated because 
> Connection refused'!

As frg said: Update Server problem.

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Update Failed ... Connection refused ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2026-06-11 16:08 +0000
  Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-11 13:19 -0500
    Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused frg <frgrahl@gmx.net> - 2026-06-11 20:27 +0200
      Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-11 14:48 -0500
        Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-06-12 20:12 +0200
          Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-12 13:19 -0500
            Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-06-13 19:23 +1000
              Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-06-13 15:41 +0200
          Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused Geoff Welsh <GeeDubya@some.rr.com> - 2026-06-15 09:54 -1000
            Re: Update Failed ... Connection refused R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-06-16 12:50 +0200

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