diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f1b03503e..0000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-before_install:
-  - sudo apt-get -qq update
-  - sudo apt-get install -y bc
-
-script: ./build.sh raspberrypi all > /dev/null
diff --git a/board/common/overlay/etc/issue b/board/common/overlay/etc/issue
index b9d3c46ab7..90990df230 100644
--- a/board/common/overlay/etc/issue
+++ b/board/common/overlay/etc/issue
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
 Welcome to \n!
+
+If you want to see a friendly user interface,
+point your web browser to the IP address of this board.
+
diff --git a/board/common/overlay/usr/share/post-upgrade/20170827.sh b/board/common/overlay/usr/share/post-upgrade/20170827.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index fc28fd2c2a..df7cf827be
--- a/board/common/overlay/usr/share/post-upgrade/20170827.sh
+++ b/board/common/overlay/usr/share/post-upgrade/20170827.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# create the persisted /var/lib directory (/data/varlib)
+mkdir -p /data/varlib
+
 # add password_hook motioneye setting
 grep password_hook /data/etc/motioneye.conf &>/dev/null || echo -e 'password_hook /usr/libexec/meyepasswd' >> /data/etc/motioneye.conf
 
diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/overlay/etc/modules b/board/raspberrypi/overlay/etc/modules
index 90ed5031ad..0353ca9abc 100644
--- a/board/raspberrypi/overlay/etc/modules
+++ b/board/raspberrypi/overlay/etc/modules
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=2592 max_video_height=1944
+bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=1920 max_video_height=1200
 bcm2835-wdt
 i2c-bcm2708
 i2c-dev
diff --git a/board/raspberrypi2/overlay/etc/modules b/board/raspberrypi2/overlay/etc/modules
index 90ed5031ad..0353ca9abc 100644
--- a/board/raspberrypi2/overlay/etc/modules
+++ b/board/raspberrypi2/overlay/etc/modules
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=2592 max_video_height=1944
+bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=1920 max_video_height=1200
 bcm2835-wdt
 i2c-bcm2708
 i2c-dev
diff --git a/board/raspberrypi3/overlay/etc/modules b/board/raspberrypi3/overlay/etc/modules
index 90ed5031ad..0353ca9abc 100644
--- a/board/raspberrypi3/overlay/etc/modules
+++ b/board/raspberrypi3/overlay/etc/modules
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=2592 max_video_height=1944
+bcm2835-v4l2 max_video_width=1920 max_video_height=1200
 bcm2835-wdt
 i2c-bcm2708
 i2c-dev
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index dac91efc6d..039a06f983 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cd $(dirname $0)
 basedir=$(pwd)
 osname=$(source $basedir/board/common/overlay/etc/version && echo $os_short_name)
 osversion=$(source $basedir/board/common/overlay/etc/version && echo $os_version)
-gzip=$(which pigz || which gzip)
+gzip=$(which pigz 2> /dev/null || which gzip 2> /dev/null)
 
 if [ "$board" == "all" ]; then
     boards=$(ls $basedir/configs/*_defconfig | grep -v initramfs | grep -oE '\w+_defconfig$' | cut -d '_' -f 1)
diff --git a/writeimage.sh b/writeimage.sh
index 99895df526..2bc1793ca8 100755
--- a/writeimage.sh
+++ b/writeimage.sh
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ if ! [ -f $DISK_IMG ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-gunzip=$(which unpigz || which gunzip)
+gunzip=$(which unpigz 2> /dev/null || which gunzip 2> /dev/null)
 
 if [[ $DISK_IMG == *.gz ]]; then
     msg "decompressing the gzipped image"