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    Upgrade from 17.04 advice

    After upgrading from 17.04 I had an issue with screen flickering, locked desktop, slow desktop or even crashes of apps and the desktop.

    After rebooting into a live usb i solved this issue(s) by going /home/myuser and renaming .config and .kde to something like .kde_old and .config_old.

    Now the system is working fine again.

    I hope this helps anyone with the same issues.
    HP Pavilion dv6 core i7 (Main)
    4 GB Ram
    Kubuntu 18.10

    #2
    Obviously, some older config file conflicted with the new version. This is why many of us don't do version upgrades, we do a fresh install instead.

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      #3
      Exactly.
      Experience has taught me that the best way to do a version upgrade is to do a fresh install, after backing up my important data, of course.
      "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
      – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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        #4
        nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.

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          #5
          Originally posted by claydoh View Post
          nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.
          Shows your true sadistic side, that right there!
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            #6
            Originally posted by claydoh View Post
            nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.
            nah, just switch your sources.list to the development version at the start of each 6 months, and roll with it.
            Last edited by acheron; Nov 02, 2017, 10:59 AM.
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              #7
              Doesn't 17.10 move to wayland? That's a major overhaul under the hood, no?

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                #8
                Originally posted by mr_raider View Post
                Doesn't 17.10 move to wayland? That's a major overhaul under the hood, no?
                Not by default for Kubuntu.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by dequire View Post
                  Shows your true sadistic side, that right there!
                  Actually, no. Other than having to remove unused kernel/header packages once as I ran out of inodes, it has been smooth sailing, pretty much.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by acheron View Post
                    nah, just switch your sources.list to the development version at the start of each 6 months, and roll with it.
                    That's how I used to run my daily driver laptop, pre-Neon.
                    Actually, that is how I ran Kubuntu on my laptops du jour going back to the first Plasma 4 versions. I had just got hold of a hand-me-down Pentium M laptop, so of course that is the day the PC I had decided to die out on me. And double-of-course the only bootable disk I had was one of the earliest daily 8.10 images. It was......usable, but i never went back to running normal, official release material

                    Doing official upgrades on stock releases is probably more daring, but I am probably just lucky.

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