This is an excellent use-case for Ansible! Just yesterday, I reinstalled my OS on a server, and after I ran an "Ansible user setup" BASH script, I was ready to connect to the new server from Ansible and rub the system configs playbook. In about 5 minutes the server was exactly as I prefer all my system. A little extra time to restore some backed up data and I was off, like nothing happened!
Check out Ansible for automation in Linux! --- Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Google Pixel 9 Pro On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 15:33 Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Oryx Pro laptop. I performed a normal > update/upgrade and after a reboot, a white screen appeared with a sad > monitor graphic and "Oh no, something went wrong!" message. > > I have 2 drives, one for the OS and one for /home/mark in the machine (sym > link to OS drive). I created a writable Ubuntu 24.04 Live USB stick and I > can boot the machine and access both drives. What diagnostics should I run > to diagnose the problem? Especially to determine if I need a new OS drive. > > Or, should I just install Ubuntu 24.04 on the OS drive? The downside is > the time needed installing all my apps and removing/reinstalling the > /home/mark drive (so I don't mess that up!). > > System76 tech support was next to worthless. Waited 6 days for "We are > very busy so just reinstall the OS". > > Thanks! > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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