My very first bootable flashdrive was created using pendrivelinux universal usb installer. That was early September 2015 and it was Ubuntu 14.04. Then once the OS was installed that's when weird things started to happen which forced me to take the Dell desktop to one place and my Acer laptop (along with the flashdrive) to another repair place and instead of repairing both Android Moto G phones I bought two new Moto E next generation phones. I'm assuming that whomever or whatever partitioned both HDDs and caused visible trouble within my network thought I would leave well enough alone and go back to our typical internet user lives. I couldn't though. I had and still have a drive in me to find out how that was done, why it was done and who did it. Instead of it scaring me it intrigued me. Soon after I found myself going down a rabbit hole.
To date I have 11 different flashdrives with 11 different operating systems on them. In addition to the flashdrives I also made 6 different bootable dvds with 6 different operating systems on them. With ALL my ISOs, I did everything by the book and never had an issue with any of them. First I made sure I was downloading my ISO ONLY from the official website. Second I ALWAYS made sure my checksums were exact. I never took my own path while following directions. I wanted to do everything with textbook accuracy. My signatures always checked out.
I have Tails. Everything was fine with Tails up until the last I tried to run it, December 28, 2015. (I date everything by the way) It kept crashing and telling me I didn't have a complete installation. It was up to date with, like I said, good signatures but it went weird and eventually just produced a black screen so I disregarded it and moved onto other stuff.
No. The only router/modem I have is the Xfinity Arris router/modem combo. I'm on my third replacement. After I got the one I'm using now and noticed the same weird stuff happening I just gave up the fight with Comcast. When I inquire about buying my own I'm told I'm not permitted, contrary to what their site states. When I inquire about changing ISPs I get told by each one (FIOS, Hughesnet, etc) that they don't provide service in my area which is strange considering the guy next to me uses FIOS.
Of course I've tried sudo apt-get update, upgrade and everything else under the sun. This is what I get as of a few minutes ago:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
ps -e | grep ssh
2123 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
proxy
www-data
backup
list
irc
gnats
nobody
libuuid
syslog
messagebus
usbmux
dnsmasq
avahi-autoipd
kernoops
avahi
pulse
colord
hplip
mdm
rtkit
saned
speech-dispatcher
jadeharley (ME)
mysql
debian-tor
tor --list-fingerprint
May 31 17:16:16.238 [notice] Tor v0.2.4.27 (git-412e3f7dc9c6c01a) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable and OpenSSL 1.0.1f.
May 31 17:16:16.238 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at
https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warningMay 31 17:16:16.251 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
May 31 17:16:16.257 [err] Clients don't have long-term identity keys. Exiting.