Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

[MoonRise]

Posting my experience here just because:

24 hours on my test laptop trying to get the Network Upgrade to Work - never did.
Tried on my normal laptop, same troubles initially so I abandoned the Network Upgrade Process.
Problems for this process - Upgrade Tool Continually Crashed during Download or Install.

Normal Laptop I switched to the ALt Install CD. Similar problems but at least it made it to the Install Process. Had to dpkg to get the upgrade finished. That system runs perfectly now no issues.

Desktop > >. Two Days!!!! Alt Install CD used for this as well, but the Installer Crashed All the way through the Install Process. Had to dpkg and actually re-run the Alt Install CD script 4 times before it finally finished. The first Crash was very critical and had to stumble around to get dpkg to even work, but found a way and got it done (took 2 days but only about 12 hours total). Then came the recent updates. ADEPT did not like that one bit. Crashed. Again had to use Dpkg to help the process.

Conclusion: I've been using Kubuntu/Ubuntu since Hoary Hedgehog. This was actually my worse experience of upgrading. Yes I know it is Beta, but this is the worse Beta upgrade I've ever experienced. I don't know why, but I sure hope it improves at final. I'll wait for that to test again on my test laptop.

[dibl]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

Heh heh heh -- and they said Feisty was not stable!

Well, really, that is a bummer of a story.

The only pointer I can offer is that, when I made a Gutsy Beta Alternate Install CD, and attempted to use it to install over Tribe 5, I got a disturbing error message regarding "files detected that might not be changed correctly" or something like that. So, I took my handy GParted Live CD and formatted that partition. Then I tried again with the Alternate Install CD, and it went down perfectly on the freshly formatted partition. All network and device connections were detected correctly.

So, I dunno if there's any encouragement in there for you, or not.

[MoonRise]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

Oh I'm happy anyway. I like playing around like that. I'm actually surprised you had to do what you did. I guess with all these new features and enhancements, that this would/could occur. I just wonder how Kubuntu with KDE 4 will be and if it will "upgrade" nicely at all. I've yet to play with that.

I just posted this so others know they aren't the only ones and that it is possible to survive

[eriefisher]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

I just finished a network upgrade myself with similar problems. The install updates sections got stuck at 1%. I had to cancell out and manually update everything. Luckily the sources.list was changed and the updates downloaded. Once I got everything installed there were a ton of updates and when those were installed there were more updates and then more updates.

The system seems stable but I may do a fresh install when a stable final release comes out just to be sure.

Back to updating.

eriefisher

[MepisReign]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

I would make a backup then wipe the HDD and.....Fresh Install.
Installing updates and the packages required won't be a concern, at least in my case

Regards,

MepisReign

[kgw]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

I used the upgrade tools to go from Feisty to Gutsy beta on my Acer laptop and it was flawless. Part way through the process it occurred to me that I ought to have plugged in a patch cord rather than do over a wireless connection, but even that posed no problem. I have not had a single issue with it. Flawless as far as I can tell.
Ken

[Fintan]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!

I am not sure if this is relevant and maybe I am just shooting in the dark but do you have automatix or parts of it on your machines? If you do it will not upgrade.

Just a thought

[MoonRise]

Re: Feisty to Gutsy Beta - Ahhhhhh!!!



That is a possibility on this end. That is a good thought Fintan, I think you may have hit on something there. I'll test that out.