On 02/16/2014 09:29 AM, Steve Ovens wrote: > > Hi all, > > I thought I would provide some general feedback from my experience > with Ubuntu Gnome. Before this weekend i had no problems with the 3 or > 4 installs i had done. I speculate that is because of the older nature > of the hardware (anywhere from 2years old to 8 years old). However i > just received my new Galago Ultra Pro from System 76 and i had a heck > of a time. (For those who dont know this is a company that specializes > in machines that rjn Ubuntu) > > First i tried 13.10. The install went fine and the only thing i did > was setup 3 partitions and i selected the defaults. When i booted in > for the first time I was unable to log in. I clicked on the user name > but no password prompt. I dropped to the cli and was able to log in > there just fine. So i rebooted few times then gave up and inatalled > Antegros. This went fine and I am comfortable with Arch to a point (i > run it at work daily). I decided to take another go with Ubuntu Gnome. > This time i tried 14.04. I couldnt get past the installer with the > alpha 1, alpha 2 or any of the 3 nightly builds i have previously used. > > I went and redownloaded 13.10 iso and tried that again. I wiped the > machine got through the install and was finally able to log in. This > time however i had all kinds of problems with network manager. Wifi > worked fine but it wasnt detecting eth0. On the cli I used dhclient > manually and that would bring the interface up just fine. I checked > network/interfaces, as it is supposed to, only the loop back was > defined there. I then followed various online guides for working with > NetworkManager.conf. I finally got the device to show in network > manage (i had to uninstall it completely, remove the /etc related > files, reboot than reinstall) but when toggling the device to on, > nothing would happen. I tried working the gnome3 ppa into the mix but > the updated packages introduced other problems i didnt want to fix > > I gave up and put on Xubuntu and then installed gnome shell. This was > super ugly. Things seemed to work ok but this time i could not create > any vpn connections regardless of installed packages or how many > reboots. I plugged in the ppa and installed ubuntu gnome desktop. That > helped somewhat with the ugliness but this still looked off. In > addition i started to have login problems (intermittent) again. > > I redownloaded 13.10 ubuntu gnome and wiped the computer again. > Install wen fine but this time rebooting brought me to busybox prompt. > Examining the errors it appeared that it could mount the root device. > I tried to fix that (verified root uuid and the fstab, was able to > chroot into the partition just fine). > > At this point i used chroot to do-release-upgrade to 14.04. I have > been successfully running 14.04 for a day using this method. I have > been able to do everything i need and have had no crashes but man what > an unfriendly user experience. I would rate this as advanced skill > level activity because doing a do-release-upgrade from inside a chroot > (from a live usb) is not a normal process. > > Like i said at the beginning i have to imagine that its due to brand > new hardware (even though all parts are certified for ubuntu). I have > 3 laptops (2 on 12.04) running with problems as well as a handful of > vms. I should also note that versions less than 13.10 produced kernel > panics during initial boot of livecd/usb/pxe boots. > > Just thought i would share my 1 bad experience trying to install on > brand new hardware > > Steve > > > Hi Steve, I'm not a dev by any means but I've been involved in Ubuntu testing since 2008 and I can assure you that the only way to get these issues addressed properly is to file a bug report for each individual issue.
Lance
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