11-04-2016, 03:43 AM
Update:
after completely installing 14.04 LTS many many times.. and researching and trying to figure out what changed here is what i have learned.
I started following the wiki procedure
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_server_howto
and
Building a Password Cracking Rig for Hashcat - Part II (cant grab the link at the moment but it is in the wiki)
For various reasons nothing ever worked right most of my problems are with the GUI..
XDM lightdm, gnome, mate etc.. tried them all
I actually had everyting working with Gnome at one point.
and briefly working with mate (my favorite)
but now no matter what I do I have the CPUFreq lockup on boot.
The problem is that i skip the XDM install here
Install all the things:
aptitude install build-essential dkms xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core \
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-video-dummy x11-xserver-utils fglrx xdm
why? because XDM never seems to work right e.g. it will not let me log in
Gnome and mate do.
so at some point i decided to skip the install of xdm and go directly to ubuntu mate.
But then.. i also skip this section:
Configure all the things:
cat > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup << EOF
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin
export HOME=/root
export DISPLAY=:0
xset -dpms
xset s off
xhost +
EOF
echo 'export DISPLAY=:0' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export DISPLAY=:0' >> /etc/skel/.bashrc
update-rc.d xdm defaults
sync && reboot
and this seems to be the beginning of the problem!! ------------> update-rc.d xdm defaults
that particular line does not work because there is no xdm
(yes i may go back to installing xdm just so i can run this and then install mate - seems a little wasteful) but piecing it all together this is what I believe worked however there were several other display managers that I tried around that time - getting the order correct just so that one line works is not easy.
hoping some of these ideas work
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2330427
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/initscripts.htm
my biggest problem is stopping CPUFrequtils from running on start up, because it will not run - it just hangs at that point.
I have tried going into the script that it uses to determine "performance" or "ondemand" or ENABLE="true" (make false)
but something overwrites this and it trys to run and just hangs.
i could probably just run OCL hashcat strictly by command line but it is so anoying changing commands without being able to cut and paste form a notepad. Mounting and unmounting usb drives is also rediculous. need a graphical user interface..
after completely installing 14.04 LTS many many times.. and researching and trying to figure out what changed here is what i have learned.
I started following the wiki procedure
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_server_howto
and
Building a Password Cracking Rig for Hashcat - Part II (cant grab the link at the moment but it is in the wiki)
For various reasons nothing ever worked right most of my problems are with the GUI..
XDM lightdm, gnome, mate etc.. tried them all
I actually had everyting working with Gnome at one point.
and briefly working with mate (my favorite)
but now no matter what I do I have the CPUFreq lockup on boot.
The problem is that i skip the XDM install here
Install all the things:
aptitude install build-essential dkms xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core \
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-video-dummy x11-xserver-utils fglrx xdm
why? because XDM never seems to work right e.g. it will not let me log in
Gnome and mate do.
so at some point i decided to skip the install of xdm and go directly to ubuntu mate.
But then.. i also skip this section:
Configure all the things:
cat > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup << EOF
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin
export HOME=/root
export DISPLAY=:0
xset -dpms
xset s off
xhost +
EOF
echo 'export DISPLAY=:0' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export DISPLAY=:0' >> /etc/skel/.bashrc
update-rc.d xdm defaults
sync && reboot
and this seems to be the beginning of the problem!! ------------> update-rc.d xdm defaults
that particular line does not work because there is no xdm
(yes i may go back to installing xdm just so i can run this and then install mate - seems a little wasteful) but piecing it all together this is what I believe worked however there were several other display managers that I tried around that time - getting the order correct just so that one line works is not easy.
hoping some of these ideas work
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2330427
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/initscripts.htm
my biggest problem is stopping CPUFrequtils from running on start up, because it will not run - it just hangs at that point.
I have tried going into the script that it uses to determine "performance" or "ondemand" or ENABLE="true" (make false)
but something overwrites this and it trys to run and just hangs.
i could probably just run OCL hashcat strictly by command line but it is so anoying changing commands without being able to cut and paste form a notepad. Mounting and unmounting usb drives is also rediculous. need a graphical user interface..