(Guide) Installing Nvidia + Bumblebee + CUDA for Optimus enabled Laptops

[staticn0de]

Hi staticn0de and all,

I have problems with bumblebee, my gear is: Lenovo thinkpad T440p with geforce 730m card.

My source.list file:

## Regular Updates
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

## Source Updates
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

## Bumblebee
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-blackports main contrib non-free

The last entry is commented out I'm deleting the comment before installing bumblebee primus and apt-get update

With above configuration of source list I have an error while apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-update -y:

Errors were encountered while processing:
Linux-image-3.14-kali1-amd64
extlinux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

After Configuring bumblebee.conf and xorg.conf.nvidia and restarting bumblebeed service which fails I did /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop and i receive the following error:

bash: /etc/init.d/gdm3: cannot execute binary file

I need to hard restart the laptop and after this me kali installation totally breaks. I have an error while booting:

The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only mode. A maintenece will now be started. After performing system maintenance, press Ctrl+D to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system...

If You need more additional info on the behavior or configuration files please let me know.
If you have any ideas whats wrong Please let me know

Edit Again: After all that is below, I did reinstall the packages autoremove removed with the exception of libplrpc-perl as it was not in the repo.

apt-get install libnet-daemon-perl memtest86+ syslinux-themes-debian syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy

Everything works with the exception of memtest86 (but that is a known bug as I am EFI booting)

Edit:

Ok, so I an update (see next post) and had the same error. It's not related to bumblebee or nvidia (it's a repo issue)

Boot into Kali recovery mode and run:

apt-get autoremove

After that, reboot. Should be back in Kali.

Run

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

and you should have no more errors.

The following are the packages which were removed under my apt-get autoremove. I have not tried reinstalling them yet.

libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl memtest86+ syslinux-themes-debian syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy

From looking at the packages which were updated just before all this happened, I'd hazard a guess and say updating either of the following caused the broken package

syslinux or syslinux-common