I did an upgrade (Kubuntu) and everything worked without a hitch.

Ramon Casha


On 1 May 2010 22:26, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm pining for arch atm...
>
> dont have the guts to waste time on it with pure maths coming up :/
>
> On 05/01/2010 10:18 PM, Jean Azzopardi wrote:
> > Ditch it and get Windows 7.
> >
> > Oh, wait. I mean Arch Linux :P
> > Srsly, I doubt ext4 regression would give you all that problem. My
> > best guess is that some stuff didn't get updated while some did. My
> > dad got the same problem when he upgraded to Karmic. While everything
> > upgraded, the graphics drivers didn't, and I had to do some fishing
> > around.
> >
> > I'd recommend a fresh installation. Or Windows 7. (incidentally, I've
> > been getting 1 BSOD a month :|)
> >
> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Anton Xuereb<[email protected]>
>  wrote:
> >
> >> AHHHH Kill me, 10.04 is seriously touching the bottom for me.
> >>
> >> No splash screen on boot (got a corrupted one the first boot, black
> screen
> >> since then)
> >> Alt+tab is really slow, freezing video running while it does it.
> >> Video flickers when changing volume using keyboard media keys.
> >> Disk performance is much worse, opening nautilus takes a good 5 seconds.
> >>
> >> Re-installed video driver, changed nothing.
> >> Ext4 regression seems to be quite bad.
> >>
> >> Any help or ideas before i chuck everything out of the window ? Cos im
> on
> >> the brink of madness :/
> >>
> >> M
> >>
> >> On 05/01/2010 12:55 PM, Andrew Cilia wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Joseph,
> >>      I can't say that I got much out of the upgrade. So, at this point
> in
> >> your thesis, why bother?
> >>
> >> If it ain't broke,  don't fix it.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 02:55 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm writing my thesis, using Sun's OpenOffice 3.2. I had to remove the
> >> default OO 3.1 in 9.04 as it had bug which wasn't allowing me to add
> >> notes to documents. I followed the instructions in
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1404156 to install... install
> >> is OK and I have the functionality I need...
> >>
> >> Did anyone find any problems upgrading in this scenario? I can't risk
> >> losing lots of work and time finding out that OOO.3.2 is broken after I
> >> upgrade to 10.04
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Joseph
> >>
> >> On 30/4/2010, "Anton Xuereb"<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The release notes are somewhat bitter sweet, seems like they released a
> >>> whole load of bugs..
> >>>
> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004
> >>>
> >>> On 04/30/2010 01:59 PM, Andrew Cilia wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I had no probs in upgrading. VMWARE patched and now fine, VPN's fine,
> >>>> gnome fine, evolution still crashing.  All normal. Seeing that nothing
> >>>> feels that much different is all the more reason for me to look at the
> >>>> release notes and see what I got myself into I suppose.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 02:13 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> ok 10.04 first impressions..
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i want my 9.10 back!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> now!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 30 April 2010 00:04, Anton Xuereb<[email protected]
> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      upgrade process changes them again...changing them manually
> worked
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      On 29 April 2010 23:26, Rodrick Borg<[email protected]
> >>>>>      <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          I dunno if I understood you problem exactly but to change
> the
> >>>>>          download server:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          go to Systems ->  Administration _>  Software Sources
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          Then change download from to a new mirror... (You can click
> >>>>>          Other ->  Select Best Server)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Anton Xuereb
> >>>>>          <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>  wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>              Hey guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>              Im trying to do a dist-upgrade to teh latest ubuntu
> >>>>>              version, unfortunately the automatic updater
> >>>>>              (update-manager) changes the sources.list file to point
> >>>>>              to the central ubuntu mirror which as you can guess atm,
> >>>>>              is slower than watching paint dry.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>              Is there some way of forcing it to use a different
> mirror
> >>>>>              for the upgrade ? I'd like to be ready at 2am tops.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>              M
> >>>>>
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