How are the upgrades going?

[wmrobins]

I'm thinking about upgrading a couple of my computers to the 9.04 beta. Normaly I do a fresh install. But I'm not seeing too many problems with upgrades mentioned here. Are upgrades going smoothly or is everybody doing fresh installs?

wmrobins

[flarson]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Upgrades worked very well for me. It might depend on how big a hassle a fresh install is.

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Fresh installs arn't much of a hassle just a little time consuming to get the mechine set up the way I like it. Glad to hear it went well for you, mando_hacker.

[sugarland2k]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I loaded the Kubuntu 9.04 on my 1.8G Panasonic Toughbook and the install went well. I got my WPA-PSK wireless working ok, my main KDE desktop crashed on the first boot but I restarted X and loaded the a few update cycles and after updating, it's running great. Faster boot time, and KDE 4.2x, not bad...

[zenarcher]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I'm absolutely thrilled with Kubuntu 9.04 Beta, myself. I have installed it on three machines here....64 bit....and for anything I've tried, it's been flawless. The best of any distro I've tried, recently. Just my personal experience, but I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Sugarland and Zenarcher,

Did you do fresh installs or upgrades?

[flarson]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I just had another upgrade experience. I have a computer that I had not used for almost a week because I have been partly flooded. I usually do a aptitude -f full-upgrade every day but on this one I had not, and I did now. It actually worked fairly well but I did have to run the aptitude -f full-upgrade about 4 times to get everything installed.

[wmrobins]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I'm beginning to feel brave! (Oh, maybe it's the beer.)

[zenarcher]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I always do a fresh install. I know a lot of people don't, but it's just my choice of options. It's not that big of a deal, really, as I do make a separate Home partition, so I can save that, if I choose, along with saving my settings. Normally, I choose to do a complete fresh install, however. I'm retired, so I have the time to exercise that option.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[jgt157]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Here's my experience after upgrading to jaunty on my work laptop.

The upgrade seemed to go very well until I rebooted and tried using some applications. Here are the things that don't work now.

1. Konsole - no prompt when you launch it. I've tried installing other applications so I can get a command prompt to no avail. I installed kterm and it doesn't show up in the menu. Installed xterm and it crashes when it is launched. Not good.

2. Video is very slooooooow.

3. Kpanel draws about 4/5 of the way across the screen.

4. Lotus Notes stopped working (fixed by changing the source for notes to jaunty and updating notes).

5. Flash no longer works in Firefox.

Something crashed once and the video problem went away and the panel went across the entire screen, until I rebooted.

Not a good experience so far.

[dnh]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I have numerous problems after the upgrade, X-server crashed, CPU-usage through the roof, kdocker is not functioning properly, Amarok 2.0 sucks...

[tblups]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Mine went badly, main problems being grub menu not being updated and knetworkmanager not working, and many things in a dubious state I didn't have time to properly check. Reversed to Hardy via Clonezilla.

[nancy]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

Im having some probs .
Cant login to KDE only gnome .
Login screen on a constant loop , type in password etc then screen goes black then back to login .

I am a total noob to when it comes to sorting this stuff out .

And im peed off with it .

Wish i had just stayed using Hardy and kde 3.5

[ashleycrue]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

My upgrade went OK. After rebooting things were a bit slow to start but it seems back to speed.

I had to re-install flash because it wasn't there for some reason.
I think something is up with firefox but cann't think what it is.

[NexusHumanis]

Re: How are the upgrades going?

I thought the upgrade on the wife's computer had gone just fine, but now it seems that playing avi-files only gives a blue screen in kaffeine, dragonplayer and vlc. Also, she says loading web-pages takes forever. She's using Opera. I plan to do further work on it, when she is not using it. (The computer is dual-booting Kubuntu and Mint 6 Kde. )