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I have setup Ubuntu 14.04 desktop as a media server, I know, I know, should have gone with server.. I wanted the GUI though. I have a few questions..

1) Is there anything I can disable or trim down to make it more lean in running? (I know.. should have used server)

2) Is there a way to make it always attempt to fully boot no matter what errors it encounters during the boot? I VNC in remotely and it's a major pain if it doesn't boot to at least the point where VNC loads. For instance, I changed some mount settings and mispelled something while at work, I rebooted and it was just dead because I needed to hit "S" to skip mounting that drive. I want it to just ignore everything it encounters and try to boot every time.

3) Is there an auto update system I could use so that it auto updates and reboots once a week at some time I determine?

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You can use the nobootwait flag in your fstab to have the system continue to boot if mounting fails. There is also a timeo (timeout) option that might work.

To auto update and reboot you can use a cron job. To do this add an entry to the system crontab sudo vim /etc/crontab. All this stuff takes root privileges so have the command run as root.

To update and reboot every Sunday at 1am would be something like this.

m   h    dom    mon   dow   user    command
0   1     *      *     0    root    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && shutdown -r now
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