On Nov 23, 2007 4:38 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > i used breezy badger for almost 18 months, taking care never to > install any updates. it just sang along beautifully and never crashed. > ditto for the fresh install of dapper. > > feisty is another story. i installed a lot of other apps, and have > been regularly applying all updates. > in the past few weeks, perhaps since the launch of gutsy, feisty has > had several updates to apps. > > as i kept applying i soon noticed that some apps started misbehaving, > especially the multimedia ones that rely on a lot of other components > and libraries. > kino that handles video-editing just stopped working normally, and > after almost a whole day of fiddling around with it, i just booted > into ubuntustudio, where kino worked flawlessly. > eventually, the update manager started cautioning me on applying > updates, and would recommend i use a 'partial upgrade' instead. > risky stuff. i clicked it once, it responded with some failure to do > so, and i went back to applying updates as usual. > > the past few days have just stopped applying updates as am unsure if > further updates may make ubuntu brittle. am caught with one foot > freeze-framed in mid-air, confused whether to stand still, update, or > just let go of feisty and install the next ubuntu at 7.10. > > i know this is a tough question to resolve, and is based on pure > subjective perception. but, what's your take? >
I recently installed 7.04 from a CD on a friend of mine's Acer Laptop. After a while of poking we managed to get compiz working after installing the nvidia drivers. Since Gutsy came with a lot more compiz support, I suggested he upgrade to it. But after the upgrade the newer kernel refused to boot, and while booting with the older kernel went smoothly, it wouldnt login to the system normally, i.e. all i could log into was failsafe terminal, no gnome. Logging into gnome brought up the black screen with bootup messages and then back to login screen. Turned out the compiz-core and compiz-plugins packages were the problem, removed them, and then everything worked. But still, this is too much of unstability. I dont think gutsy per se is the problem, its probably the upgrade process. > :-) > niyam > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
