Install on Ubuntu/Debian-Laptop/Desktop (x86 install)

_Originally posted by @mrsieb in https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/issues/2104#issuecomment-946433588_

Summarize installing Raspiblitz on a Notebook (Asus UX303LNB) *12 GB RAM *120GB M2 Flash (/dev/sdb) *2TB SSD (/dev/sda)

Procedure like discriped here : https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/issues/2104#issuecomment-917444238

Well it almost work perfect a couple of small issues i run into are:

Dedecting the correct Disk for the blockchain. The disk must have a partion , unformated disk get not regnognized a install dialog to choose the disk would be helpfull.

On my Notebook after the disk ( in my case sda) is correct dedected a HDD Lost is dedected by bootstrap.sh during the formating phase and a reboot is executed and end in a error loop. Increase the sleep time in the loop helps to get over this. https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/blob/4cf02caa43f6780139c4c924a9783d087559c47f/home.admin/_bootstrap.sh#L533

Sometimes the build_sd.sh stops because of a timeout during download bitcoin core, just restarting the script and run again works.

Tor is activatet but not running after a fresh install, modifing the internet.tor.sh file solve this issue if this is a permanent solution i am not sure. https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/issues/2531#issuecomment-917686278 https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/blob/4cf02caa43f6780139c4c924a9783d087559c47f/home.admin/config.scripts/internet.tor.sh#L227-L230

Modify to:
[Service]
ReadWriteDirectories=-/mnt/hdd/tor
AppArmorProfile=

Fresh install of c-lightning works fine, a fresh install of LND stops the provisioning.sh durring creation of a new wallet. https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/blob/v1.7/home.admin/config.scripts/lnd.initwallet.py

get an error, because the grpcio is not generated i did it manually like in the readme here: https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/tree/v1.7/home.admin/config.scripts/lndlibs

sudo python3 -m pip install grpcio grpcio-tools googleapis-common-protos pathlib2

After this a wallet can be generated.

[mrsieb]

Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB _background.sh[858]: CHECK FOR END OF IBD --> reduce RAM, check TOR and restart bitcoind
Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB sudo[73581]:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/rm /home/admin/selfsync.flag
Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB sudo[73581]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB _background.sh[73582]: rm: cannot remove '/home/admin/selfsync.flag': No such file or directory
Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB sudo[73581]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Okt 26 16:27:46 duck-UX303LNB sudo[73583]:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl stop bitcoind

So what i found now is watching the background process the stop and restart seems to be triggered by _background.sh this is definitiv related to a fresh sync an flag checking, there is also mentioned the 50syncHDD.sh script which is not existing anymore in 1.7.1

 ####################################################
  # CHECK FOR END OF IBD (self validation)
  ####################################################

  # check every 60secs
  recheckIBD=$((($counter % 60)+1))
  if [ ${recheckIBD} -eq 1 ]; then
    # check if flag exists (got created on 50syncHDD.sh)
    flagExists=$(ls /mnt/hdd/${network}/blocks/selfsync.flag 2>/dev/null | grep -c "selfsync.flag")
    if [ ${flagExists} -eq 1 ]; then
      source <(/home/admin/config.scripts/network.aliases.sh getvars)
      finishedIBD=$($bitcoincli_alias getblockchaininfo | grep "initialblockdownload" | grep -c "false")
      if [ ${finishedIBD} -eq 1 ]; then

        echo "CHECK FOR END OF IBD --> reduce RAM, check TOR and restart ${network}d"

        # remove flag
        sudo rm /home/admin/selfsync.flag

        # stop bitcoind
        sudo systemctl stop ${network}d

        # set dbcache back to normal (to give room for other apps)
        kbSizeRAM=$(sudo cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemTotal" | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g')
        if [ ${kbSizeRAM} -gt 1500000 ]; then
          echo "Detected RAM >1GB --> optimizing ${network}.conf"
          sudo sed -i "s/^dbcache=.*/dbcache=512/g" /mnt/hdd/${network}/${network}.conf
        else
          echo "Detected RAM 1GB --> optimizing ${network}.conf"
          sudo sed -i "s/^dbcache=.*/dbcache=128/g" /mnt/hdd/${network}/${network}.conf
        fi

        # if TOR was activated during setup make sure bitcoin runs behind TOR latest from now on
        if [ "${runBehindTor}" = "on" ]; then
          echo "TOR is ON -> make sure bitcoin is running behind TOR after IBD"
          sudo /home/admin/config.scripts/internet.tor.sh btcconf-on
        else
           echo "TOR is OFF after IBD"
        fi

        # restart bitcoind
        sudo systemctl start ${network}d

      fi
    fi
  fi

  ###############################
  # Prepare next loop
  ###############################

[mrsieb]

@mrsieb is this solved by running patch to update to the latest commit in v1.7?

yeah it is!