roolback

[miss_b_have]

14.04 isn't working for me, it hangs, it crashes, and is generaly unstable.

Does anyone know how to do a roolback to 13.10? (if at all possible)

I have tried fixing it for over 8 hours, and now I just want to go to my happy-place (13.10), where I can get some work done.

[schnelle]

You cannot rollback. If you are upgrading from one release to another bugs should be expected. I always do (and recommend) clean install.

So I recommend to you to make clean install (wipe root and home). 14.04 is superb release for me. I am running it since beginning of february. Bugs which you are experiencing are probably coming from buggy upgrade.

Note that 13.10 is supported only 3 more months, and 14.04 is supported next 5 years

[Snowhog]

'Rolling back' as you put it, isn't really possible unless you did a full system backup before the upgrade. That said, maybe we can still salvage your situation.

Did you do the upgrade to 14.04 from Muon or the graphical notification of an available distribution update? Really doesn't matter. If you have a wired connection to the 'Net (doing updates over wireless is, in my opinion, NOT recommended), open a console and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[miss_b_have]

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Yep... that's the method I used, and I only use a wired connection.
The upgrade went smooth and there where no warning signs along the way.

I upgraded from a Kubuntu 13.10, and the problem seams to be my RadonHD 7550 I had installed with the latest beta from AMD's site.

I can install the open-source driver, but it is so slow that I can't use desktop-effects, oxygen-theme or any nice things.
I have tried the fglrx, fglrx-updates, the driver from AMD's site and the newest beta from AMD's site, and I have followed the instructions for purging fglrx and even tried to force the install as a last option.

@schnelle
I know that 13.10 will loose support soon, thats why I wanted to upgrade to 14.04.

[miss_b_have]

Well... thanks for the answers. going to try a clean install on another disk.

Sorry if I sound a bit annoyed, but this is not how I expected to spend my Sunday :-(

[dequire]

Hello. I'm sorry to hear about your frustrations. As noted above, you can simply back-up your Home dir (making sure that "hidden" files are shown) and re-install either 13.10 or 14.04. A lot of people simply refuse to upgrade and perform a new install no matter what. It tends to be smoother although requires a few extra steps (backup and restore).

Please take a few things away from this that you can do to help:

(1) File bugs on the upgrade process to Kubuntu via Launchpad.
(2) Provide feedback directly to the Community and Devs by posting your issues over on the Google+ Kubuntu Page.

Also note that the new installer process for a clean 14.04 install has an improved driver manager to make sure you're getting the right driver. If you're going to re-install anyway, might as well try going straight to 14.04; since as noted above support for 13.10 will be brief...See that release notes about the new driver manager at Kubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Thank you for helping make Kubuntu the best it can be!

[miss_b_have]

tried a clean install, opensource-driver still have lag and terrible fps in glxgears (below 500fps).

When I try to install fglrx-updates under system-settings/driver-manager, It goes through the motions of an install but now the three radiobuttons are all unmarked and my card is listed twice. would have taken a screenshot, but my prt_scr doesnt work for some reason.

It's not the most powerfull machine in the world, but I am used to at least 4000fps in glxgears, and I should be able to boot in less than two minutres from grub.

My system is a Phenom II X6 1090T with 8Gb Ram on a Gigabyte MB, and besides my ATI-card, I have a m-audio (ice1712) soundcard. Not the most exotic configuration, so I'm puzzled by this strangness.

It's now 11 hours since I started, and I think I'll leave it for now and file a bugreport in the morning.

[miss_b_have]

I just wanted to share my "solution" to the problems I have had installing 14.04, in case anyone would find this usefull.

After a cleen install I tested the opensource drivers and tried in vain to install fglrx from the repos.

downloaded the latest beta from AMD (version 14.4)
installed using --force
ran aticonfig --initial
reboot and it worked... :-)

I know that using --force isn't recomended, and since I never got the repo fglrx-drivers to work, I'll leave the thread unsolved.