Technical Stuff

This worked well on machines (Xubuntu 18.04.3) with discrete GPUs.  Could not figure out why my Dell G7 would not use the Nvidia GPU.  Turns out the whole thing was because  I had secure boot enabled and the nvidia driver couldn't be loaded with it enabled. # set nvidia driver 430 # sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get -y autoremove; sudo apt-get -y autoclean  ##UPDATE sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lutris --install-suggests sudo init 6; exit sudo apt install libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.key sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable sudo apt-get install libgnutls30:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libxml2:i386 li...

export PARTITION=/dev/mapper/linux1----vg-home sudo cryptsetup luksDump ${PARTITION} sudo cryptsetup luksAddKey ${PARTITION} sudo cryptsetup luksDump ${PARTITION} change user password to new password reboot (to ensure partition is unmounted log in verify LUKS is back with new password then export PARTITION=/dev/mapper/linux1----vg-home sudo cryptsetup luksRemoveKey ${PARTITION}

The magic combination to access the console port on the SG-1X00 series firewalls on linux: user is in dialout group usb to serial is at USB0 cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 115200 --parity=none --nostop --nortscts

 Introduction 1 Save off old data 2 Prep new filesystems 2 Data Restoration 3 Post-installation Configuration (Part 1) 4 Drivers and Kernel Parameters 4 Lightdm Configuration 4 Install SSHD 4 Configure LVM Cache 4 Network configuration 5 Sound Configuration 6 Administrative Mail 6 System Variables 6 Additional Software Installation 6 Google Chrome 6 Perforce 6 Jetbrains IDEs 7 Crossover 8 Slack 8 Oracle Java 8 Docker 9 Additional Repository Software 9 Golang 1.9 10 Miscellaneous Software 10 User Directories on / 10 Nvidia Dmesg Warning Fix 10  Introduction The bad kernel release for the Spectre/Meltdown bugs hit me pretty hard.  Somehow I ended up with a very corrupt root FS.  Oddly it only affected some files and directories but the amount of broken stuff was too much to fix and have any confidence of the system running well again. I grabbed my Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS USB stick and booted the li...