I had problems with Kubunut as well. But I think my troubles stemmed from the fact the servers were being hammered that day (I did this right on the 18th - release day). So I'm not surprised I ended up with files timing out... I ended up installing regular Ubuntu, then doing an apt-get install kde-desktop (after changing my sources.list file to point to the UofC servers - d/l'd & installed KDE in 10 minutes!)
Soooo, my recommendation would be to install again (either one) now that the initial rush is hopefully diminished. If you get the same troubles again without any installation problems, then there's something odd besides missing files.... HTH. Shawn Alastair Preston wrote: > On 22 October, 2007 22:31:31 David Brewerton wrote: >> Actually I finished the upgrade to 7.10 tonight. I had the system (PIII >> 733, 512MB RAM) downloading and installing overnight to do the main >> download then finished the install tonight. I needed the NVIDIA video >> driver that's not technically supported for the system. So far so good. >> > Good Luck; I'm having no end of troubles with it... > Machine 1: AMD 64X2 3600+ with 2 Gig RAM. Had Kubuntu 7.04. Tried the > online > distribution upgrade. Went through most of the process (nearly three hours) > then with about one or two minutes to go it aborted with an error about > missing files. After restarting, 7.10 launches and starts KDE, but, even > after I set the network parameters, (and succesfully ping my router and other > machines on our LAN) won't access the internet. It complains there is no > network device ( ifconfig says otherwise!). Also, System Settings crashes > immediately when I try to start it. > > Machine 2: Sony Vaio Celeron 1.7 ghz 4 w/512Mb RAM; Multi boot setup: > WinXP > on hda, Kubuntu and Mandriva each have half of hdb. Tried to reinstall > K/Ubuntu 7.10 from CD. Neither Kubuntu nor Ubuntu will install fully - I can > run a command line session, but neither Gnome nor KDE seem to install > properly - I get errors about missing files and/or incorrect user permissions > in my /home directory. Kubuntu boot loader install recognizes XP partitions, > but NOT the presence of Mandriva. Ubuntu saw both, but set up the boot loader > incorrectly such that booting to Mandriva elicits a kernel panic. Had to > reload a bootloader from the Mandriva partition so I can run Mandriva ( my > wife needs it running when she wants to print something from her laptop via > our LAN - it's our only machine & distro on which printer sharing actually > works. I suspect I'm going to have to try a fully clean install, so I've been > backing up my /home and /usr/local directories. I'll probably have to do the > same with my primary machine as well. > > Al Preston >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:10:56 AM >> Subject: [clug-talk] Ubuntu 7.10 ... One Days to go >> >> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ >> >> Cheers >> Szemir >> >> >> P.S: It is one of the distros we will have available at COSSFEST >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
