OpenSUSE :: How To Retrieve A Stolen Laptop
Jun 26, 2010
I got home the other day to discover that I had been robbed blind, everything that is worth anything is now gone. Now my question is, is there anyway to tell where my laptop is because if I can find that I am almost positive that it will lead me to everything else. I unfortunatly didn't install any software that would make this easy so is there anything that is pre-installed on opensuse 11.2 that would aid me in this or am I s.o.l?
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Aug 21, 2010
Is there a linux compatible program for tracking a stolen laptop? I tried Prey, but I can't get it installed and working. Something that works for the non-uber geek?
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Apr 29, 2011
...../etc/init.d/before.local...System Console Stolen at line: 266 This line of red warning consistently appears immediately after something that ended with /etc/init.d/before.localThis is during the boot.Have anyone see it before ?It appears both in kernel versions:2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
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Aug 18, 2010
I tried to install OpenSuse 11.3 on my brand new pc, which already had Windows 7 proffessional in it, and I went step by step through the installation without changing anything. It didn't work. I tried for a second time and this error message kept popping up: "Creating device modes with udev 2.0436224] [drm: i915_diver_load]*ERROR*Detected broken BIOS with 262140/2644kb of video memory stolen. 2.0436224] [drm: i915_diver_load]*ERROR*Disabling GEM(try reducing stolen memory or updating the BIOS to fix)"
And then a lot of letters and numbers wich make no sense to me. Now the only way I can initiate OpenSuse is with the OSuse boot dvd and on failsafe mode.
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Apr 22, 2011
I tried to update one of my home machines with a fresh install. This is far from new to me so I did not expect any problem. But I was proven wrong. First: did install the system as usual. First anomaly: system blocked during the install process but did restart it flawlessly one I tried to eject the DVD from the player. It needed actually that intervention to retake working. It then went to install and froze during the first system start. I rebooted with failsafe settings, it then correctly configured. I reached a beautiful desktop. I performed the updates from the update repository and I joined the nvidia proprietary driver repository (which updated to the G02 driver).
I then rebooted the machine and now I am in trouble. In normal mode the system (dual boot Opensuse, XP) does not boot at all and freezes immediately after hitting enter as before. In safe mode it goes further but does not reach X anymore. It blocks with the following line statement: "system console stolen at line 266". I then tried "startx". But the system goes into a scrolling loop that does not allow me to read the output. how to get at least the error message of the loop? I read some line passing by that the system might have an X11 authorization problem.
Athlon Phenom X4 905e
Nividea G7600 graphic card
Former system installed and running flawlessly: 11.1
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Apr 18, 2010
P4 2.4ghz 2.0 ram openSUSE 11.2 KDE 4.3.5 CAMERA = olympus D575Zoom I am not sure that this post shouldn't be under the hardware section or if this only relates to digikam software. Have been using opensuse 11.2/kde4.3.5 for a few months now and for the most part its been good. It [machine and digikam] recognized my Canon xTi and I was able to download pics, no problem.
However, When I plug the usb connection into my Olympus nothing much happens. I had no problems whatsoever in opensuse 11.0 with this camera, it worked with out fail. So now when I plug the usb cable in and then plug in to the camera, this is what happens: The device notifier pops up but the device is not listed. If I open a terminal and do [mount -ls] or [lsusb] or [fdisk -l] these are my results:
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Aug 22, 2011
I've updated to OpenSuse 11.3 (zypper dup) and now I cannot use seamonkey or firefox application. It freeze, even with -safe-mode.
I get a gtk message error when launching this application in a terminal with GTK_DEBUG set :
Gtk-Message: /usr/share/themes/Sonar/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:48: failed to retrieve property `GtkTreeView:dd-row-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x2aaf778da760)" of type `GString'
OpenSUse 11.3 X86_64/ Gnome / MozillaFirefox-6.0-2.1.x86_64 or seamonkey-2.3-4.1.x86_64
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Oct 22, 2010
I have forgot the root password of opensuse server. How could I retrieve it.
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Apr 26, 2011
I obviously a noob to Suse but after installing 11.4, and filezilla, i cant connect to my ftp server. Ive opened ports 21 22 and 990 explicitly in the firewall and all I get is a 425 error Cant Retrieve Directory Listing. It logs me in ok but doesnt allow data connections?
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May 14, 2011
The company im working at is planning to sell some of the old lappy One of them is this pentium3 laptop (for only 20 bucks DD)
the specs are:
pentium 3 1.1ghz
640MB ram
28GB hdd
wifi
Im wondering that if this machine is sufficient to run linux as a server I dont plan to use it for anything big just among me and a few friends Also, I dont rlly need any Desktop Environment as I can just ssh to this machine from my other laptops if I need to do any work on it.
Hence, my questions are as follows:
1. is this machine sufficient to run linux as a web/file server for me and a few friends?
2. also, is it okay to rlly run this laptop 24/7? (its a rlly old laptop after all)
3. lastly, altho I prefer using opensuse, but if I dont need any DE at all, would Arch be a better solution? (Its known to be very small and light)
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Jun 13, 2010
I'm trying to install OpenSuse 11.2 64bit on my HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. This is the Intel i7 processor with 8 Gb of RAM and Nvidia NVS 3100M graphics. I can boot from my 64bit installer LiveCD for KDE, but once I choose Install, after the first selection screen where I can change the default video at the bottom, I just get the openSUSE symbol and it hangs. I have tried all of the options at the first page for video setting or Kernel setting, My system specifications are as follows:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz RAM: 4GB DDR3 Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce GT 230M, 1024 MB Dedicated video memory. I should mention that I have currently a dual-boot OS, i.e. Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I also checked the burnt CD on another machine and the CD worked. So the problem is not because of the CD. I can't find any info on installing Suse on this notebook.
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Apr 29, 2011
For starters, I have a Dell E1505/6400.I had Win XP but it crashed my hard drive, so I installed Ubuntu. After that install, I decided I wanted to change to OpenSuse, so I downloaded the 4.6 Gig .iso file. Downloaded fine, and I burned in ImgBurn...no problems with it. So I popped the DVD into my laptop, hit F12 so I could boot from DVD drive, but the DVD isn't recognized. It goes straight into Ubuntu, and when Ubuntu starts up, it shows up as a blank DVD+R. (That was the 2nd time I burned it, the 1st DVD I burned had the same results.)
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Oct 5, 2010
Last week I installed suse 11.3. Most of the time it runs fine, but sometimes my laptop just hangs. Mostly I'm just browsing the internet using firefox. For example when I just installed opensuse, and I tried to maximize the terminal window it would hang and not recover. I'm not sure what is causing it. When it hangs I also can't move the mouse pointer, or open the system activity window. I'm not sure I have the minimum specs for kde though, but I can run kde without any problems, it's fast, it reacts fast. At first I thought maybe the amount of ram 512 was not enough so I turned off all the kde effects, but it still seems to crash once in while. I tried checking .xsession-errors to see if I could find something, and I found this
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updateapplet(2142): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-donald/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
"/usr/bin/kdeinit4(2127)" Error in thread 3041617680 : "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
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Jan 26, 2011
I had my netbook which is an Acer AspireOne lock up on me once earlier today and after doing a hard shutdown *holding the power button* and booting it back up I noticed that I could no longer reboot the machine from KDE's graphical shutdown button. Basically I click it and it pops up with the 30 second count down and then nothing. However I can run as root,
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Shutdown -r now
and it will comply and reboot. I did notice that rngd was returning an exit status 1 and after some research decided to uninstall it with no change to anything. I decided to attempt and see if it was just a KDE issue as many problems have been, but when I attempted to log into Gnome I got a very nice white screen with one black line where the taskbar should be. Whether they are related or just coincidence I don't know.
I've ran my google researching skills into the ground on this one and I'm tired and a bit grumpy because I haven't been sleeping so it'd be awesome if I could get a heads up, because to my knowledge it's not reporting any errors it just seems to hang without sending the shutdown signals.
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Mar 30, 2011
I've installed 11.4 on the laptop. So far there hasn't been a huge leap of difference between the 11.3 and 11.4. But now I can't use Skype. It's installed and all of that. But whenever I open it, nothing happens.
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May 16, 2011
I get to the test call, but the sound is not recording, the internal Laptop mic isnīt picking up sound... I do hear the skype voice in the test call...... Iīve looked in the sound preferences and canīt find the problem, "Sound recorder" doesnīt pick up any sound either....as for the vid. "Cheese" shows me my pic, and the light for the cam goes on, but I donīt get video on my skype.... when I close "Cheese" the light for the cam goes off....
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Jun 16, 2011
I've recently switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse/GNOME, and I'm trying to install grdesktop in my laptop. - I searched it in SoftwareManagement and couldn't find it (I enabled packman, and other repos). - I tried zypper intall grdesktop (but it's the same problem)
- I downloaded the source from grdesktop's website, tar, ./configure shows this error :
checking for libgnomeui-2.0... configure: error: cannot find GNOME2 2.0! zypper install libgnomeui gives this: No update candidate for 'libgnomeui-2.24.4-2.1.i586'. The highest available version is already installed. and I'm running Gnome Version: 2.32.1 as my DEI'm not sure what to do now?
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Jul 16, 2010
I am running 11.2 on my Toshiba laptop with Celeron M CPU and 2 GB RAM. Should I fresh install 11.3?
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Sep 3, 2011
I have a problem with opensuse grub - it cannot see other distros on my laptop (Ubuntu and Mint) and the original grup got glitchy when I recovered it (I couldnt reinstall it with terminal, so I used rescatux to recover it, but I couldnt update it). It works with windows. Is it some kind of bug or osuse isnt compatible with other distros?opensuse: 11.4 64 bit
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Dec 7, 2009
Can anyone tell me how to turn off touchpad clicking in OpenSuSe 11.2?
In 11.1 it was done in the Xorg.conf file but 11.2 does not have this file.
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Mar 4, 2010
Is there any way to get openSUSE 11.2 to automatically shutdown or hibernate when the laptop is overheating? I often cannot tell when my computer is overheating as it sits on a table. When it over heats, the kernel panics and I have to hold the power button to force my computer to shut off.
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Oct 26, 2010
So, I jaibroke my iPod touch and have OpenSSH and I can ssh into my iPod, but I cannot ssh back into my Laptop??
I did
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$ echo '192.168.*.*' >> /etc/hosts.allow ##I googled and it said to do this
$ echo 'sshd: 192.168.*.*' >> /etc/hosts.allow
I also uncommented these lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
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I am 100% sure I am putting in the right password. I even did that ^ code from my laptop, the one I am ssh'ing into, but it still will not accept my password. I even tried root@ instead of matt@..
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Jul 29, 2011
Today i installed xfce and i like it better than gnome except the few problems it creates: 1. the panel is auto hiding. how to fix it?
2. laptop trackpad click not working. only button click is working. 3. The title bar for all windows is gone!
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Jul 29, 2010
I'm rather new to Linux and haven't been on it for more than a week. I've been trying to find a Linux operating system that'd be compatible with my computer - I went through about 4 of them before finding openSUSE and really liking it. My main problem now, however, is that it seems to be rather unstable when it comes to running programs after a while. I've been on the computer for about 30 minutes for this session and tried using skype, for example. After about 5-10 minutes of using it, skype ended up crashing. There weren't any other programs open at the time either. After a while of doing anything, it usually lags up, taking about a minute to unstick so programs respond, and even gets to the point where it sometimes doesn't detect my keyboard strokes (though I think this is a separate problem that has to do with the disfunctional multimedia buttons - usually, after a minute or two, the typing begins to work again).
I've also noticed, however, that when trying to start up, the computer automatically goes to a 'start up options' screen where I can either boot in openSUSE normally or try the failsafe option. Is this normal? Usually, before shutting down or booting up, a black screen with white writing will flash by, sometimes followed by multicolored stripes before settling on the openSUSE log-in screen - at first this freaked me out and I'm still not sure if that means it's having an adverse reaction with the computer. The webcam doesn't stay disabled either after restarting, but I'm not sure if this is normal or not.
Has anyone else experienced these problems? The Windows Vista Home 64-bit that I had installed on my computer originally was OEM and I tried calling Gateway for help with the computer when something happened to the operating system that made it unable to connect to the internet regardless of what I tried to do (even the system diagnostics tool didn't help). I mention this because I'm wondering if the fact that it was OEM might have something to do with it? Or should I not try Linux at all on here and return back to Windows for this one? I've read around and a few people have said Linux is best working when installed by the manufacturer before purchase. Is this true?
After the problem with Vista, when I came upon the Linux OS's I was really intrigued, and I find I really like them especially for the fact that there's so much interaction with the terminal command prompt. I'd like to continue working with the openSUSE OS but does it sound like I should? or should I install the 32-bit version instead?
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Apr 24, 2011
My laptop won't wake from sleep. I hit the powerbutton and it'll blink a few more times, turn green and the keys will light up but the screen stays black.
Running sony vaio s with windows 7 and 11.4 duelboot. I really need it to be able to suspend and wake because I'll be taking it to college in the fall.
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Jan 10, 2011
I've a sony vaio Y21S1E and I can't install opensuse in graphic mode (I got a black screen just after the loading page...). So I installed it in text mode, but on reboot, I have exactly the same problem... I had a look in the logs but I found nothing ... My Xorg.conf seems to be OK (intellegacy)...
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Apr 10, 2011
11.4 has been a bit of a pain. The broadcom driver, b44, for the Broadcom 44xx/47xx, freezes my system. I cannot be the only victim of this faulty driver.
The driver is not for the WLAN, but rather for 10/100 ethernet on a Dell Insprion 1720 laptop.
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Apr 19, 2011
got a new laptop (well, it's 2nd hand) but it's a laptop which is the model up from mine i use suse on already. i have a HP compaq 6720s, and the new one is a HPS 6735s. i've downloaded and burned the 11.4 iso as an image but it just won't load. thought it was maybe corrupt but it works on my laptop which is already running suse. checked in the BIOS and it doesn't seem to mention boot from dvd drive, though it does say cd drive (but it's definitely a dvd drive).
is it possible to install from a usb pen drive? if so, how? fat32 won't take it, as it's too big a file, and will just putting the .iso file on there mean it'll work? what file system should i use? ntfs, ext3/4?
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Jul 2, 2010
I just want to ask if its possible to hear music from different stations using Internet Broadcast? If it only works for Windows platform, is there a way to work with openSUSE (install application or something that will work)?
By the way, here is the link that I am referring to: e-Radio Portal
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Sep 9, 2010
I installed a fresh 11.2 and perform a Stable KDE update and a complete update with "Yast Online Update" and now there is no sound in my laptop.
My sound card is HDA Intel and uses snd_hda_intel driver.
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