Ubuntu is not particular famous for smooth upgrades. Every Ubuntu user I encouter swears by the backup and re-install approach. Beats me how they couldn't get this right after all these years. I am still tempted to give the LTS a try, at least in a VM.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:27 AM, paul morley <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you Jean, I would say during the upgrade it got screwed up. > It won't be ext4 as I've been using it since 9.04 and its working fine. > Best thing would be to backup data you wish to retain and do a clean > installation using multi-partitions then restore the backup data. I like > to keep the operating system in a separate partition in case of a system > problem. > > Paul > > > 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 ? 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