Kubuntu Precise installed perfectly on my ...

[GreyGeek]

old Sony VAIO VGN-FW140/E.
8)

[erchie]

I, too, had a perfect online install with Kubuntu Precise. Not one glitch.

[Mebunto]

Not so good for me. I tried to upgrade from Natty, first it wouldn't boot at all so I had to fix that. Then networking didn't work after upgrade - and I couldn't fix it - and the machine crashed and died at random intervals. There were also miscellaneous kde app crashes too.
Decided to do a fresh install, it's almost vanilla, although I've started to install some extras such as ISCSI, apache and multimedia stuff. (I'm using it as I speak) but this crashes too and no crash info is gathered. I suspect it may be the display drivers crashing. I'll soldier on, although it would be good to find out if anyone else out there is having the same problem as there is very little info' that I can find.

[ronw]

System76 Gazelle laptop (gazp6) -- but I guess that's not exactly news or surprising.

[belocus]

awesome, fast booting on my Toshiba Satellite L300


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[GreyGeek]

I, too, had a perfect online install with Kubuntu Precise. Not one glitch.

What's the make and model?

[GreyGeek]

Not so good for me. I tried to upgrade from Natty, first it wouldn't boot at all so I had to fix that. Then networking didn't work after upgrade - and I couldn't fix it - and the machine crashed and died at random intervals. There were also miscellaneous kde app crashes too.
Decided to do a fresh install, it's almost vanilla, although I've started to install some extras such as ISCSI, apache and multimedia stuff. (I'm using it as I speak) but this crashes too and no crash info is gathered. I suspect it may be the display drivers crashing. I'll soldier on, although it would be good to find out if anyone else out there is having the same problem as there is very little info' that I can find.

My experience with version upgrading vs clean install is that the former is usually problematic and the latter is usually good.

I had Kubuntu Lucid running on my old Sony since Feb of 2009 (alpha) and it has been faultless since Lucid was released. I decided to test the upgrade method. It failed to do the job.

I had created a LiveUSB stick using unetbootin and decided to use it to install the 64b Precise as the solo OS, replacing Lucid. The install seemed to go perfectly, but when I rebooted without the USB stick in the install paused at the initial black screen, couple seconds into the boot process. When I rebooted with the USB stick in Precise came up and ran perfectly. I used KParted to check the sda1 and found out that the install did not mark the boot flag on the HD. So, I set the boot flag and rebooted without the USB stick. That induced a continuous reboot cycle, even with the 64bi USB stick inserted. So, I inserted the 32b LiveUSB stick and it booted up nicely with the "Try" & "Install" options. I used KParted to unset the boot flag and then deleted all partitions and left it blank. Then I used "Startup Disk Creator" to make both the 32b and 64b LiveUSB sticks (replacing what was created with unetbootin). I inserted the 64b LiveUSB stick and powered up, selected the install option and away it went. 15 minutes later I was looking at a fresh install without a USB stick plugged in.


On my Sony Precise is a little snappier than Lucid and KDE 4.8.2 is awesome.

[drum]

perfect install with Kubuntu Precise on my selfmade desktop

[capt-zero]

I've installed twice using the upgrade method. It's gone flawless both times. Love Precise!

[shailesh_paranjpe]

I just did an upgrade from Oneiric 64 Bit on my HP Pavilion DV6 to Precise and the installation went absolutely flawless. Now working smoothly and looks pretty fast as well. I found Precise booting time and shut down time to be much much less than Oneiric and every thing works out of box. Thanks Kubuntu for a GR8 upgrade

[whatthefunk]

Hellish install...but finally got it. That nvidia driver issue is a hell of a way to start out an LTS....

On the up side, I gave my computer a bit of a performance boost. Invested in a new ssd and some more ram. Went with 64 bit instead of 32 bit like before. Its flying!!! I have a 14 second boot time, before tweaking!

[ScottyK]

For my notebook (the one in my sig) I had a bit of a problem upgrading from 11.10. I grabbed all the latest packages, but it still wouldn't start the upgrade, even after rebooting. Only when I did a cold shutdown, and let the computer sit there for a bit, did it work. Once I logged back in, there was an immediate icon indicating a new release, and the rest of the update went without a hitch.

[charles052]

Well, it was a fine install, but I've got 1 or 2 minor glitches that I'm hoping will work themselves out. While it's impressive, I'm just old fashioned and loved the look and feel of 10.04. That's the release to beat IMO. On the other hand, starting anew is making me find better programs and solutions to my problems, so I can't say this is a bad thing. This may end up being my favorite release yet, but only time will tell. So far, I can say it feels superior to 10.10-11.10.

I'm really hoping this release will be stable and I won't have to mess with it for the next 5 years, but considering how much I do with my computer, there's not a single install that I haven't broken at one time of another. This is the 3rd installation I've had on this computer and it's less than 6 months old! Kubuntu 10.04 holds the record for the most durable, bealting out my previous Windows 7 install. Yes, Winblows has beat Kubuntu a time or 2, but was much more of a resource hog and I think it burned out my last hard drive.

[Mountain Man]

Another flawless Kubuntu upgrade for me. I started using Kubuntu around 9.10 and have never had a problem with an upgrade.

[digger57]

Installed and it runs well on an old IBM T23 laptop using a spare 30 gig hdd (1.13 gig cpu, 768 mb ram) seems fairly quick for the old lap top.
The wifi set up was a breeze, find the network, type in the WPA key and away we go.

Question;
How do I link USB0 to Comport3 to run my OBD II tester? When this is sorted out, the good hdd goes back in with a fresh 12.04 install.

[oshunluvr]

Dell Vostro V13 - fixed a touchpad/mouse driver problem too.

[GreyGeek]

Well, it was a fine install, but I've got 1 or 2 minor glitches that I'm hoping will work themselves out. While it's impressive, I'm just old fashioned and loved the look and feel of 10.04. That's the release to beat IMO....


Lucid is an excellent release. Yesterday I gave an Acer 3690 on which I installed Kubuntu 10.04.4 to a fellow in need. There is still a year left on Lucid's LTS, and the Acer is an older, single CPU machine with 1G of RAM, so I decided that Lucid would be the most trouble free install. It fit perfectly, and even the old Broadcom 4318 chip activated nicely. Stellarium gives about 25-30 fps and YouTube videos play seamlessly.



I'm really hoping this release will be stable and I won't have to mess with it for the next 5 years, but considering how much I do with my computer, there's not a single install that I haven't broken at one time of another. This is the 3rd installation I've had on this computer and it's less than 6 months old! Kubuntu 10.04 holds the record for the most durable, bealting out my previous Windows 7 install. Yes, Winblows has beat Kubuntu a time or 2, but was much more of a resource hog and I think it burned out my last hard drive.

I, too, am going to stay with 12.04 through out its entire LTS. Me, 12.04 and this four month old Acer 7739 plan to age gracefully over the next five years. I bought this machine new on Jan 3rd and immediately put Precise on it while Precise was Alpha. It's been a joyful ride with only a few bumps along the rode and never a need to reinstall. I started using 10.04 as an Alpha also, and when it was released I continued to use what I had initially installed and updated. That was the first time I ever used a version of Linux that wasn't installed from a Gold release. Precise makes the second.

[slk230]

I have 11 running on multiple PCs and my mom's touchsmart was the first install to announce that 12 was available two weeks ago. This weekend my Touchsmart also announced that 12 was ready and I told it to update. Other than using up all my drive space on my usr partition and blocking the installation of LibreOffice clipart, upgrade was smooth as silk. Every thing that was working still works. Once I tweaked the partitions, the remaining programs installed too.

One thing I've noticed though is the memory usage has skyrocketed. On my Dell laptop which still hasn't received the upgrade notification 11 is using about 1 GB of Ram. On my Touchsmart, 12 is using almost 4 GB! In the two plus years I've been running Kubuntu on my Touchsmart, I've never noticed any Swap utilization. I now do. (Very small but still some use. On a fresh reboot the memory is still running almost 2GB and rises during use)

Another annoyance. The Kubuntu start up screen on my Touchsmart looks like typed text and not the pretty Kubuntu screen I see on my laptop. Not sure if this has anything to do with running grub legacy on the touchsmart. (My HP has multiple OSs and Grub is installed on a dedicated partition)

[SteveRiley]

One thing I've noticed though is the memory usage has skyrocketed. On my Dell laptop which still hasn't received the upgrade notification 11 is using about 1 GB of Ram. On my Touchsmart, 12 is using almost 4 GB! In the two plus years I've been running Kubuntu on my Touchsmart, I've never noticed any Swap utilization. I now do. (Very small but still some use. On a fresh reboot the memory is still running almost 2GB and rises during use)
What does top tell you about memory utilization?

[GreyGeek]

A Gb, ya. 4Gb? Something run a muck.

You might try htop to check your RAM usage. Mine shows 1255/7657

[erchie]

The "make and model" of my custom built desktop computer is:

Gygabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2 board
AMD Athlon II x2 255
8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
Gigabyte GV-R6450C-1G graphics card
500 GB WD Green

[slk230]

What does top tell you about memory utilization?

Dell ATG 630 got prompted for the upgrade yesterday so I told it to go ahead. Installed without a
hitch. Memory looks the same as before the update. About 900 Mb out of 1GB.

As to the Touchsmart, Plasma-Desktop is using 1.7 GB and Kwin is using 300 Mb. My desktop is
a static wall paper image and no widgets. No idea why the memory use is so high.

[pwabrahams]

I'm running Oneiric and I've never gotten the alert that there's a new release, unlike previous release upgrades. Even do-release-upgrade proclaims "No new release found." Something must be wrong with my environment -- but what? I'd like to avoid having to do a new install, especially since many people here report that the upgrade procedure works very well.

[GreyGeek]

I decided to move to Kubuntu 12.04 on my wife's Acer One 521. I stuck in the 32b USB stick and installed it without problems.

Up came the Plasma-Netbook display. Ugh! My wife wouldn't be able to grok that DE so I opened a Konsole and installed Plasma-Desktop. Then I went to SystemSettings and under the Workspace Cachew switched from Netbook to Desktop. Ahhh... familiar territory.

The only problem I had was that the battery was not detected, a known bug. But, that is immaterial. The battery has been good in the past for over 4 hours. She does email and some browsing for maybe 30 minutes two or three times a day, and then puts it back on the shelf and plugs it in. Or not, depending on how she feels.

Another problem was that the microphone didn't work in Skype. So, I stripped out Pulseaudio and ran Alsa mixer to max digital and capture. The mic started working.

Beautiful little machine. Blazing fast with Precise. (It is a 64b machine and my 64b LiveUSB ran nicely, but the 32b OS is more than fast enough for what my wife does. If she takes up video editing I may have to reconsider.

[slk230]

Well spoke too soon. Just tried upgrading my Dell Optiplex gx270 and now neither Oneric or Pagolin will launch. I get the plymouth screen, some moving dots and then nothing. When I edit grub and turn off the quiet option I see a list of commands scroll by and the system stops at "Stopping Kernal Messages".
This machine has dual monitors and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 video card.

[sumski]

System: Host: shumarija Kernel: 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 precise
Machine: System: Acer (portable) product: Extensa 5630 version: 0100
Mobo: Acer model: Homa version: Rev Bios: Phoenix version: V1.36 date: 10/30/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T5800 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2000.00 MHz 2: 2000.00 MHz
Graphics Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650]
X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1280x800@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 GLX Version: 3.3.11631 - CPC
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV635 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3600 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Card-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (55.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST9500420ASG size: 500.1GB
2: id: /dev/sdb model: Silicon size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID: / size: 391G used: 365G (99%) fs: ext4
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0C mobo: 55.0C
Info: Processes: 183 Uptime: 3 days Memory: 2050.1/3950.3MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.0

[Snowhog]

I see you use inxi (http://smxi.org/site/install.htm#inxi) (at least, the output is identical to inxi). I use it also. A great CLI utility, and one I support financially.

[GerardV]

Installed on my Toshiba Satellite L750 and iMac 21.5" Core2Duo with ReFit and OSX. No problems whatsoever.

[sumski]

I see you use inxi (http://smxi.org/site/install.htm#inxi) (at least, the output is identical to inxi). I use it also. A great CLI utility, and one I support financially.

Agreed, i use it since my Sid days, a wonderful tool. :)

[tek_heretik]

It installed perfectly on my machine too, see signature below.

Edit: I am using the nVidia driver (worked fine without it too but better with it) and I used the kubuntu-low-fat-settings package, had to turn a few wanted things back on though, everything still peachy here, keep it updated, etc.