Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

["Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 8:32 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

>> When I type tail /var/log/messages I don't see anything strange.
>
> Well if it turns out to be non-X related, i.e. if your hardware
> freezes
> in runlevel three, as well, I would try to do it the old fashioned
way with disabling certain kernel parameters like "noacpi" and
similar. Ex.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html

I don't know if I've run in runlevel3. I really wouldn't be able to do
anything there, as my work is all GUI.


>
> Also you might google for other users experiences with Linux on your
hardware.
>
> regards
> Eberhard, who concludes (once again, just for me and myself!) that
brand
> new hardware is not the ideal place for Linux, especially not if the
hardware in question is a notebook.

I wouldn't have done it, except I have a buddy with the same notebook.
He's had it for about six months and runs SLED.  I figured it would be
safe to run openSUSE. Dunno.

I've been running Amarok now for over an hour with no issues. I did
download the latest nVidia driver, but am a bit fearful of loading it
in case I mess up. Also I believe I'd have to hand-edit my xorg.conf
file. Not something I'm inclined to do.

At this point, the machine locked up. I am still able to SSH into it
from my XP box. Looking at the messages I see:

login as: root
Last login: Thu May 24 11:18:42 2007 from 10.3.15.90
Have a lot of fun...
jabba:/home/kai # tail /var/log/messages
May 24 11:48:12 jabba zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh
failed for 'SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates': Failed to parse XML metadata:
Can't add repository at http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/10.2:
Unknown source type for http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/10.2
May 24 12:00:26 jabba sshd[5419]: error: PAM: Authentication failure
for root from 10.3.15.90
May 24 12:00:27 jabba sshd[5419]: error: PAM: Authentication failure
for root from 10.3.15.90
May 24 12:00:30 jabba sshd[5419]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam
for root from 10.3.15.90 port 3096 ssh2
jabba:/home/kai #


Nothing there appears out of the ordinary. In fact, the machine is
obviously running. Looking more like an x.org issue, eh?

-- 
k



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