HP Elitebook x360 1030 G2 + Ubuntu 18.04

So I forgot my Asus at home today.. and I'm too lazy to make the 40 minute round trip to go get it so I decided to grab up the nearest laptop and load Linux on it. Turns out the nearest laptop was an HP Elitebook x360 1030 G2.. the Ultra book version.

Thing runs Windows pretty damn good, it can only run Linux better!  So because my go-to OS for the past few years has been Fedora, I decided to run what any newcomer would.. Ubuntu!

Anyway long story short I installed Ubuntu 18.04 KDE version.. laptop booted perfectly.  So far everything works including the touch screen. But I have a pair of 17' LCD's, external keyboard and mouse on my desk.  So I grabbed an HP USB-C Universal dock.. plugged it in and nothing. No display, no USB, nothing at all.

Installed the DisplayPort drivers from here: DisplayLink for Ubuntu, rebooted and BOOM. Everything on teh dock worked. Ethernet, Sound, Display, USB.. all of it.

I gotta say Ubuntu surprised me on this one, pleasantly surprised.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Mount terminated with status 32

I have a cloned Ubuntu 12.04 vm (ESXi 5.5) that was giving the below error while mounting an NFS share:

mount.nfs: Connection timed out
mountall: mount /netapp [514] terminated with status 32

/etc/fstab:

cat /etc/fstab
netapp:/vol/vol0/custom /netapp nfs intr 0 0



After much time spent Googling I discovered that a number of other folks had resolved this issue by either installing or replacing their GUI.  Following another advise I installed KDM, then shortly after I remembered by dislike for KDE so I replaced it with GDM.

Some might argue the mount issue can't be related to a GUI, to that I can't argue.  But I know what resolved my error.  For good measure though after the fact I altered my mount line to:

netapp:/vol/vol0/custom /netapp nfs intr,_netdev,timeo=15,retrans=7  0 0