How are the upgrades going?

[wmrobins]

I'm thinking about upgrading a couple of my computers to the 9.04 beta. Normaly I do a fresh install. But I'm not seeing too many problems with upgrades mentioned here. Are upgrades going smoothly or is everybody doing fresh installs?

wmrobins

[flarson]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Upgrades worked very well for me. It might depend on how big a hassle a fresh install is.

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Fresh installs arn't much of a hassle just a little time consuming to get the mechine set up the way I like it. Glad to hear it went well for you, mando_hacker.

[sugarland2k]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I loaded the Kubuntu 9.04 on my 1.8G Panasonic Toughbook and the install went well. I got my WPA-PSK wireless working ok, my main KDE desktop crashed on the first boot but I restarted X and loaded the a few update cycles and after updating, it's running great. Faster boot time, and KDE 4.2x, not bad...

[zenarcher]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I'm absolutely thrilled with Kubuntu 9.04 Beta, myself. I have installed it on three machines here....64 bit....and for anything I've tried, it's been flawless. The best of any distro I've tried, recently. Just my personal experience, but I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Sugarland and Zenarcher,

Did you do fresh installs or upgrades?

[flarson]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I just had another upgrade experience. I have a computer that I had not used for almost a week because I have been partly flooded. I usually do a aptitude -f full-upgrade every day but on this one I had not, and I did now. It actually worked fairly well but I did have to run the aptitude -f full-upgrade about 4 times to get everything installed.

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I'm beginning to feel brave! (Oh, maybe it's the beer.)

[zenarcher]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I always do a fresh install. I know a lot of people don't, but it's just my choice of options. It's not that big of a deal, really, as I do make a separate Home partition, so I can save that, if I choose, along with saving my settings. Normally, I choose to do a complete fresh install, however. I'm retired, so I have the time to exercise that option.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[jgt157]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Here's my experience after upgrading to jaunty on my work laptop.

The upgrade seemed to go very well until I rebooted and tried using some applications. Here are the things that don't work now.

1. Konsole - no prompt when you launch it. I've tried installing other applications so I can get a command prompt to no avail. I installed kterm and it doesn't show up in the menu. Installed xterm and it crashes when it is launched. Not good.

2. Video is very slooooooow.

3. Kpanel draws about 4/5 of the way across the screen.

4. Lotus Notes stopped working (fixed by changing the source for notes to jaunty and updating notes).

5. Flash no longer works in Firefox.

Something crashed once and the video problem went away and the panel went across the entire screen, until I rebooted.

Not a good experience so far.

[Teunis]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

A few hours ago I did an upgrade using the Alternate CD plus net access, an option you get when starting the CD based upgrade.

The whole process took about one hour and went without any problems.

When restarting the Knetworkmanager had disappeared, on starting it manually it did find my WIFI signal but would not connect. I opened up Alt+F2 and typed in nm-applet and got the Gnome network applet wich connected fine.
Later I might still switch to wicd.

At the end of the install there was a list of items to remove, I OK'd the removal as the only item of interest was the Adobe Flash plug in.

Once running again I pointed Firefox to Youtube where I was presented a link to Adobe, I followed the instructions and had Flash working in minutes! The easiest system I've ever seen on Linux.

What annoys me right now is that the battery/power indicator has disappeared.

[dnh]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I have numerous problems after the upgrade, X-server crashed, CPU-usage through the roof, kdocker is not functioning properly, Amarok 2.0 sucks...

[tblups]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Mine went badly, main problems being grub menu not being updated and knetworkmanager not working, and many things in a dubious state I didn't have time to properly check. Reversed to Hardy via Clonezilla.

[nancy]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Im having some probs .
Cant login to KDE only gnome .
Login screen on a constant loop , type in password etc then screen goes black then back to login .

I am a total noob to when it comes to sorting this stuff out .

And im peed off with it .

Wish i had just stayed using Hardy and kde 3.5

[ashleycrue]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

My upgrade went OK. After rebooting things were a bit slow to start but it seems back to speed.

I had to re-install flash because it wasn't there for some reason.
I think something is up with firefox but cann't think what it is.