Hi Lance, Thanks for the reply. I wasn't looking for any action really but really just sharing my experience. I appreciate your opinion.
Cheers On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Erick Brunzell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer Ubuntu Certified Professional Novell Certified Linux Administrator
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