On 03/23/2013 09:44 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Since I run Linux and Ubuntu I decided that I'd better update to Ubuntu
12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) before the month runs out because support
for 10.04 which I currently run will end. So I click on the upgrade and
it looked like everything went smooth. Rebooted and got a screen saying
the system couldn't find the boot partition. Argh! So since I have
another computer in the room I ran it to search for answers. Most of
the problems had to do with old software and dependencies for those.
This was not going to be an easy fix. What had happened is that the
upgrade didn't actually complete though it acted like it did.
So I gave up BUT of course I had made an image backup of the 10.04 boot
partition with Clonezilla and copied it back. Reboot and back to
10.04. This afternoon I'll try again this time uninstalling the one
particular program that was the culprit before running the upgrade.
Before Winders users feel smug I've seen similar problems doing Winders
upgrades. And before someone recommends Linux Mint which I run off of
pen drives on other computers I would love to do that but apparently the
Android emulators only can run in GPU mode on Ubuntu and I need that for
testing super high density devices like 5 phones with 1080x1920 displays.
Well that was fun (NOT!) Decided that Ubuntu's Unity interface is not
for professional software developers so reinstalled 10.04 again. In the
process noticed that the support for 10.04 may have been extended to
2015 probably because a lot of Ubuntu users HATE the unity GUI. It is
hard to know until you actually are trying to use your everyday tools
whether or not a new GUI is going to work for you until you actually try
it. Just doing the Live CD didn't tell me much.
