Everytime I leave the computer for a few minutes the screen goes black (I think in suspended state) and when I move the mouse it asks me for the administrator password. How do I make it so it doesnt ask me for it after coming back from suspended state?
View 3 RepliesI dual boot both Windows and Linux and I often put my computer to "sleep" at night so it's easy to wake up the next morning. In Windows I just need to press a few keys and my computer comes to life, in Linux this doesn't happen and I have to actually go for the power button. (This wouldn't be so bad if the computer wasn't in a hard to reach place in a cupboard) At the moment I have a USB hub which my keyboard and mouse plug into, but for the sake of testing I plugged a second USB keyboard directly into the machine itself, again neither wake it. Doing a bit of research I have discovered that the wakeup devices are stored in /proc/acpi/wakeup The contents of the file by "cat" are as follows:
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monotoko@KatieIV:~$ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
DeviceS-state Status Sysfs node
PCE2 S4*disabled pci:0000:00:02.0
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At this point I have reached a dead end, how do I tell the acpi wakeup to accept input from USB keyboard as a kickstart?
I find that someone still can shutdown/suspend even if the computer is locked in fedora. I mean without entering any password. How do I disable that??
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It was working fine apart from a problem with the right-click and dragging icons. Then I updated the grub and after restarting the machine my grub disappeared and I was left with a black screen with a blinking cursor. I reinstalled Ubuntu again using my external HD with new partitions (the same thing happened where the partitions kept coming back after trying to delete). Now my Windows won't load up and just goes straight to recovery. After I restored it the grub disappeared again.
I recently had a problem in Ubuntu 11.04. I had just installed GNOME 3, however, I didn't really like it as much so I decided to go back using GNOME 2,but then a whole bunch of things happened. I tried re-installing GNOME 2,but then I lost the Ubuntu enviorment and stuck only with GNOME and now I'm only left with a terminal whenever I log in. how to restore Ubuntu 11.04 back to its original state, like as if it had a fresh installation?
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but can't find such a thing in rsync or ssh man pages. Does anybody know what I should do?
I hav disabled the password on startup but the default still pops up and asks the password. How can I stop that. I use UBUNTU 11.04
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I leave my Macbook Pro 7,1 updating and come back to it a while later and I press a button to turn the screen saver off, it just has has a black screen a cursor in the corner and nothing else. It hasn't automatically rebooted, I know, because I dual boot and it would've booted into OS X. When this happens I can usually press ctrl+alt+F2 or something and I get a command line prompting me to login but if I try and type nothing appears at the login prompt. The only way I can recover from this is to hold down the power button to turn it off.
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The backup box itself is somewhat customized: in addition to the hard drive device, it presents a CDROM-like device on /dev/sr0. I gather that the purpose of this cdrom device is to bootstrap via Windows autoplay the backup application which lives on the disk itself. I wouldn't suppose any guarantees about how it does this, so it seems important to preserve the exact state of the disk.
The drive is formatted with a single 500GB NTFS partition. My initial thought was to use dd to dump the disk (/dev/sdb) itself, but this proved impractical, as the resulting file was not sparse. This seemed to be because the NTFS empty space is not filled with zeroes, but with a repeating series of 16 bytes.
I tried gzipping the output of dd. This reduced to the file to a manageable size — the first 18GB was compressed to 81MB, versus 47MB to tarball the contents of the mounted filesystem — but it was very slow on my admittedly somewhat derelict Pentium M processor. The time to do that first 18GB was about 30 minutes.
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I have been looking at how to avoid typing my firefox master password. So far no luck.
Do you know of a way to have the master password in a file on a USB stick?
I am also looking for a way to integrate keepassx with firefox. I found passifox at[URL].. It depends on keepasshttp and seems to be a windows thing.
Having to write my user password every time I want to do anything. I DO know I'm doing something risky for the system, that's why I have Linux. Is there a way to avoid to rewrite the password again and again, like start with superuser permissions?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedEvery time I login, compositing is disabled. I have to manually go into settings and Desktop and press 'resume compositing.' When I press it, it says: "compositing has been suspended by another application, press alt+shift+f12 to resume." So if i press the key combination, of course it does resume, but i have to go through this process every time i start the computer. here's my xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
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I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 64 bit edition.
Here is my graphics card
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I've installed the latest drivers
The author (somewhere on these Ubuntu forums directed........ Ctrl + Alt + F1 which I thought was going to be the "Terminal" but nothing similar. I have about a half dozen different names/passwords for Ubuntu but none will work to log in. How to get out of this text console and back to Ubuntu GUI? And, how to read my lost LogIn name and password for this "Text Console"?
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhen booting up the system it promts for user and pass. After entering username and password followed by enter the system looks like its going to start. But no, it loads a white page for a couple of seconds and then go back to the section where you enter username & password. Why? the user and pass was correct. If i hit ctrl + alt +f1 and use the same username and password i can login with the CLI. But not in the graphical login prompt. How does such a problem gets fixed?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm am able to WOL my computer when it has been halted (or shutdown, which is basically the same thing for the problem I'm facing). The problem comes when I try to WOL the computer when it is suspended or hibernated. Then, it does not work.
I've been investigating for a while and have found that when halting, the following is done in the /etc/init.d/halt script:
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But I don't know which script must be modified in case I want the network not to be brought down when the computer is suspended or hibernated.
By default, cron jobs are scheduled to run at 4:40 IIRC. I have my computer set to suspend after half an hour of inactivity so, except for some all-nighters, pretty much every day at that time my PC is suspended. What happens to the cron jobs? I don't suppose they run while the suspension is in effect. Do they get run when the computer wakes up or does cron wait until the next day at 4:40 to run the jobs?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWell here's what I've done in grub.confpassword --md5 BLABLABLA /grub/admin_menu.lstNow that I enter some password, I can go to that menu and run my pvt. OS.But how to get back to original (or say public or default) grub menu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems resuming a suspended session on my HP DV6-1240ea laptop. On attempting to resume a suspended session the screen remains blank. I've tried pressing the Caps Lock key to see if the LED lights but it does not which would suggest the system has not started.
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