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Mark Rogers wrote: > Ben Hayes wrote: >> I've installed 7.04 on my system but as soon as I do an update, >> the update kills my nic. So I'm waiting until the final release >> of the distro before I upgrade (and even then, I'll hold out >> until some updates are release afterwards as well. > > Which kernel were you getting during the update? > > There was a new kernel released over the weekend that fixed a bug > in the previous kernel that broke lots of installs (mine wouldn't > even boot!) It's stable again now, though. > > [It makes you realise the advantage of allowing you access to the > previous kernel through the grub menu, but highlights a(nother) > problem with proprietary drivers: now that the Nvidia drivers are > keeping in sync with the kernel automatically upgrades are easy but > when you switch back to an old kernel version the drivers are > mismatched and the GUI won't boot. A quick change from "nvidia" to > "nv" in xorg.conf solved the problem until the new kernel was > released a few hours later, but that's not newbie friendly.] > > This is the first conflict I've had from an Ubuntu install, and > given that this is a beta and was fixed very quickly I'm not put > off recommending the final release to anyone who wants to use it. > > For comparison, every beta version of Windows I've used (MS call > them "releases") has caused grief during one update or another, > which usually means a reinstall. The last reinstall was to Ubuntu > 7.04 beta, and life is much easier now :-) > Not sure which kernel it was updating to. But every attempt just didn't work (even though the interface was working). Another thing that I did notice when using the 7.04 release was on two attempts of installing and updating the system, I did notice that the number of packages were being updated. After I noticed that, I haven't used it since (well, until the distro is stable and in RC). Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGI0e0YQ3cRajkBLQRAml8AJsFjXohpBrc+4E/HsNj5fKJN4HQtACfXN+3 3465hyam91X8ElF6z/wJyic= =Eicj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
