On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:51 PM Jeffery Small <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had some very serious problems when upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04 and > just wanted to ask here if people who have now upgraded to 24.04.1 have > seen any significant problems or whether things went smoothly? Any > specific things to watch out for with the update? > > Thanks. > I had less trouble with the upgrades (2 so far) than a straight install.
I downloaded the 24.04.1 iso from the US mirror site and installed it in a VirtualBox VM. It still had the login-twice defect, and I didn't think much of the release as a whole based on that. Plus, it kept crashing when running various apps - I didn't track them (no interest). When I went to install 244.04.1 on my desktop (brand new boot drive), it failed and refused to install. So I installed 20.04.4 and waited for the upgrade offer to come up. I accepted it, it took about half an hour even with the minor technical questions (screensaver, changed sudoers file and others) that came up. There is one issue with the panel app - it reported a problem which I marked not to report again but I sent in the report. It doesn't even show up now, and all appears to be working fine. The biggest issues I had involved getting the right "detected" scanner (for SimpleScan, which remembers the last one set - I only have one but it sees 3, one of which works) and resetting the speakers to the correct sound channel. Everything else works fine. I had to reinstall OpenShot andOBS-studio - very minor. On my laptop, after the upgrade from 22.04.04, the only issue I had was the unbelievably S-L-O-W installation of the Thunderbird snap (which I deleted - I hate snaps so far). To re-create my 24.04.1 VB VM, I cloned my 22.04 VM and upgraded it. Works quite well. Both machines and the VM run, and I am quite pleased with them. One of the smoothest upgrades I've done ever (since 12.04). I should add that I also replaced my previous remaining two hard drives with SSDs, and the whole machine runs faster, especially my VMs, which are all on one of the new SSDs instead of a hard drive. The desktop is now all SSDs, and I removed the DVD-RAM writer that was inhibiting my Linux 6.8.0.40 run - it really did crap out and is now junk. HTH. Mark Richter, Bestselling Author, "Mystic Prince" Retired Expert Software Engineer Avid Xubuntu user/admin/fan http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
