You did type ping correctly the first time. The error is kind of misleading or maybe not good enough for someone not familiar with it. It basically tells you that your DNS resolver couldn’t resolve the friendly name to an IP address. The reason is that your resolver had no access to the Internet.
That fstab file looks good. So, either there is a problem with your NVMe data partition, or there is some other error. Like @dctech mentioned, try to run that journalctl, but not sure how you will be able to scroll it being in recovery console. Of course, the hope is that “exit” will do, but…
If you cannot make any progress, dumping Debian may be the best option as dealing with misconfigured drivers is no fun at all. It may be that your box has something that Debian just doesn’t really like.
Actually, maybe you could run ‘ls /home’ and eventually follow it with ‘ls /home/YOUR_USER_NAME’. I hope that /home is mounted in recovery console, though, so it will not be a false negative.
I am just going to start my next attempt with this system with a fresh install and call it day. At this point I could of reinstalled like 4 times over just turning the thing on and off to be broken lol. Ill give yall an update tommarrow if clients allow me time to play on it.
One more question though, during install there is a screen that gives me a bunch of check boxes to add extra stuff including cinnamon? Should I just check all of these boxes?
Also in the screen when it asks how I want to format the drive. I selected use the entire drive, won’t this be fine using the default tmp drive or should I do something else in one of those 4 options.
@Jacek Originally I planned on just going for Ubuntu but dctech wrote perfect instructions for just normal Debian. If I just install unbuntu, do I install it, run the blade bit commands from the instruction and just win? or do i still need to spend a life time in terminal figuring out why something exploded?
What @dctech wrote is more or less valid for all Debian based distros (so Ubuntu and Mint included). CLI doesn’t really differ that much between those distros (if at all). The crap comes from the desktop where they are installing different things using different installers, etc. So, that CLI writeup is as good as gold.
I am more familiar with CentOS / RedHat side but really on headless side (never had luck with a good desktop install that would just work). I would prefer to use that (Fedora or Rocky Linux), but unfortunately getting GH properly compile / install on RHEL distros is a challenge and I gave up. I picked up Ubuntu for the plotter long time ago, as Win was / is basically worthless on a dual socket mobos (what I got). At that time Mint was maybe not yet a thing. So, Ubuntu is not so much my preference, but what I have and don’t really like (I don’t dare to touch it to get it broken again; I am on the previous version of LTE as I already bricked it once during the upgrade). Few other folks that started later are very happy with Mint and would for sure help you with that side, if such help will be needed at all.
The bottom line is that regardless of using Ubuntu or Mint if needed you can always go down to CLI and use that as a last-ditch effort. On the other hand, the expectation is that most likely Mint is the most forgiving and hand holding desktop install, especially for beginners (I was swearing at Ubuntu comparing how smoot Fedora / Rocky install was).
Still, if you are going to start fresh and will consider Mint, maybe you could also consider switching to GH. My take is that GH is much more mature than BB and if all fails, the dev behind it (Max) will for sure be there to help. (By the way, he already stated some time ago that at some point he is going to open up his code.)
I am not using GH because the code is blocked. I like max and have used his stuff for other projects in the past. I just don’t like the pricing structure of it. Also if I was going to use GH I wouldn’t even be touching linux lol.
I am going to rerun this on debian because I had it working just missing the ram needed then updated something and it exploded and I allready have everything for it. I don’t plot enough to care really, I won’t use that drive for anything besides plotting and will take it out and replace it with a windows disk for normal test bench purposes, which will be 98% of its entire life.
If debian still doesn’t work out, ill grab mint and try that and go from there. I know I tried to install chrome in debian so I could use chrome remote desktop on it and that made such little sense to me, I gave up on that entire idea in about 5 minutes and just used the firefox that was preinstalled and said it was good enough without remote desktop lol.
I don’t enjoy or get excited about an OS that is obtrusive and not fun to use, my entire life is engulfed with computers, I want to get from point A to B as fast as I can and will sacrifice some speed for QOL and really the entire reason windows is the king for users for the past 20 years. Linux makes me feel I teleported back to windows 3.1 or msdos. You can still run commands in windows to achieve every part of the OS but why on earth would anyone willingly pick that option (thats how i feel about linux). Typing the command to git an update or pushing a button to get an update is the same thing, just one is waaaaaay easier and types the command for you.
You can install xRDP server on that box and connect to it from any Win using RDP client (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-xrdp-on-ubuntu-20-04/). If you go that route, you cannot have an auto-login on that box, as xRDP will barf if the user you are connecting with is already logged in.
lol of course it will. I will just not. It can be a local box and just run when I am there hahaha
Btw the cool button linux had that asked me to update something, that I didn’t even ask for, it just popped up on shut down and I was dumb enough to be like, ohh cool it has auto updates! Is the reason the computer is now broke lol. That is not a fun OS, got that sweet windows 95 vibe to it. Once it works, just don’t touch or it may not work next time you need it.
Well I figured out where the error happened. After running this on the fresh install it exploded again.
sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver cuda-drivers-545 cuda nvidia-smi nvtop
Then Nvidia persistence module error happened.
Going to start reinstall again now and I’ll skip replacing the driver’s? This was earlier in the install? Doesn’t it already have them?
I’m going to take the entire rig with me home this weekend and play with it. Did it again and got bladebit couldn’t compile because of cache or something. I’ll have more dedicated time with it home this weekend. Just jumping to nossd is getting real tempting though or just running normal plots though.
I’ll give that a go because I am losing my mind at this point. Having it home with me to work on without clients interrupting me constantly and such will also make this less painful for me.
I know I am crying alot about linux here but I really do appreciate your guys help a lot.
Try running below to check if 545 is the latest CUDA major driver version you see: apt show cuda-drivers -a
, also check what version you get from: apt show nvidia-kernel-dkms -a
I have 525 for kernel dkms which is likely behind due to being GTX 1080 and very likely you are on 550? This would cause an issue and that’s why you do want to check for latest coda driver version and use that in the coda driver installation line. So if the first line does show 550 then the line in your case would be: sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver cuda-drivers-550 cuda nvidia-smi nvtop
Looking on Geforce driver DL site I see that Nvidia released 550 recently (Jan 24) for Linux so that may be blowing up things hence I included the note about checking for latest cuda driver version. You may also want to purge all Nvidia drivers & software first so that appropriate dependencies are installed with above line. Use the following to purge all Nvidia stuff as per my instructions: sudo apt autoremove cuda* nvidia* --purge
Likely if you had the Nvidia GPU installed in the system during OS install and selected to allow non-free-firmware repo a newer drivers got installed.
I was going to try these quick then realized I didn’t have wifi drivers installed allready at home only ethernet and not a spare cable for this system and just went to mint. Sorry man, I tried, I really did lol
@Ronski Downloaded mint-cinnamon because I think that is a most normal one?? Allready just the the installer feels like upgrading from win 95 to winxp or win vista(this is a stretch a bit) but allready I am less frustrated.
General question I feel like will kill me in linux, how do i handle spaces in the spin disk names when telling them where to put the files?
holy fk, this is just like ugly windows 10? Maybe I am jumping the gun here but like easy to navigate fking buttons that run commands for me? When did linux grow up? Kinda sick and ill probably still explode this somehow but this is pretty slick…
HARROW!!! Bro, mint is fking sick. Like sick enough that if I wasn’t engrained in windows for business I might daily drive this. I had to manually get chrome vs using flatbox so chrome remote desktop installed. Still not working, it asks a question but dosn’t allow input. But hey I am using chrome right now talking to you with my chrome profile talking to you vs hoping between computers. HOORAY!
No idea how to install bitblade, tried one thing and failed. I think I just need to jump back to your commands but im gonna chat with the wife for a minute on this victory before she heads to bed.
If no one else has instructions for Mint I can take a look at it over the weekend and come back with steps to install BB & CUDA on it.
Mint Cinnamon is a good beginner distro. I moved on from it a long time ago as I use Linux on servers and in many DIY & IoT projects where Debian fits better and hence use it for my desktop as well.
This is where I got stuck. I just went and deleted the BB folder completely then ran your commands for BB that worked until I hit this one? Any Idea? I feel like this is because I allready built it without cuda?
There’s absolutely no need to make Bladebit, just download bladebit-cuda-v3.1.0-ubuntu-x86-64.tar.gz from the below link, and extract BB. You can use the file explorer app to navigate to where you want it, just copy and paste (remember Crtl+shift+C and Crtl+shift+V). Right click in the file explorer Window and click open terminal here. If it doesn’t run you may need to change the permissions on the file, I can’t remember the command for that but one of the others will know.
You can amuse yourself with my troubles in this thread, and there may be some useful info in there.
PS. Watch out if copying and pasting, being a Windows user it normal to hit Ctrl+V, but that doesn’t work, then you remember and hit Ctrl+shift+V but then you get weird characters pasted, for someone reason Ctrl+V triggers them.