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#Installing nomachine on ubuntu install#
#Installing nomachine on ubuntu upgrade#

The problem happened at midnight on Thursday.

#Installing nomachine on ubuntu upgrade#

This time I selected a few options differently ("don't change the contents of this file, leave them as is", rather than letting the upgrade overwrite them) and it completed with no issues. I was then able to change SDA1 to my "working" drive, and I ran the upgrade again from within the Ubuntu Live environment. Once I had the data backed up, I ran an Ubuntu Live CD on that VM and mounted SDA1. I may have accomplished it EVENTUALLY, but it would have taken all weekend, and it was Friday dammit! So I managed to transfer off the entire well, I was too nooby at that time. Oddly, the data was definitely still there. Reinstalling GRUB, putting a new linux image in the boot folder, etc etc. So I tried about 10 million different things from Googling. System couldn't see it's storage anymore. Did I mention that the VM could no longer find SDA1? Yeah. Always verify your backups BEFORE doing an upgrade!!! So the upgrade fails mid upgrade. Mistake #2: I had a backup, but turns out it was only a file level backup. It had been running on an ancient server and I had done a P2V conversion a few months earlier. This was a very old web server, very out of date, previous IT guy never upgraded it or patched anything. Mistake #1: try to upgrade from an ancient 8.04 LTS Ubuntu OS to 12.04 LTS on a Thursday night.

NoMachine NX Client for Windows star 4.4ĭumbest thing I've ever done with a Linux system:.

What is the stupidest mistake you made on your linux box? Eventually I managed to get a bootable usb and fixed my problem. In the end to get my admin privileges back I needed to be admin. Thinking I would just make a bootable USB I downloaded an ISO only to find you had to be admin to create a bootable disk. Normally this could be fixed by entering recovery mode through grub, however between having a zero second grub time and UEFI I couldn't get in. Instead of adding the group, I replaced all the groups effectively removing the sudo group from my user. Thinking I was hacked I searched for how it could have happened and finally realised I had hacked myself.

The next day I ssh'ed into my desktop and found that I didn't have sudo privileges anymore. I went ahead and added my user, tried it out and finished for the night.

#Installing nomachine on ubuntu install#

I went through the install process and after the install it said to add any users to the lpadmin group that you want to have remote desktop permission. I decided the other day to install NoMachine on my Ubuntu desktop and my Windows laptop as remote desktop has always seemed to be smoother for me than VNC.