Looking for the 24.04 Upgrade path

[Predestination]

I'm new here, I am posting this to see if anybody, can tell me of the ETA of the upgrade for 24.04 Numbat. I'm still on 22.04 currently, and I heard something is amiss with the upgrade install for 24.04.


I fully expect perhaps the upgrade path being open either end of this month, or in June. Does anyone have the latest? MANY thanks ahead of time for an answer

[claydoh]

For LTS releases, Ubuntu don't push upgrade notifications until the first updated ISO image is released, which is in August.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades

One can upgrade manually, if desired:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades/Kubuntu
If they haven't flipped the switch for general, non-LTS upgrades yet, this can be "forced" by using the "-d" switch in place of the "-m" one.
There is no timeline for enabling upgrades "early", or from non-LTS releases. It happens when they deem it safe in general, or any potentially serious issues are resolved, even if they are not common situations.

The Y2038 time_t thingy has slowed down things,
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/...untu-24-04-yet

[Predestination]

For LTS releases, Ubuntu don't push upgrade notifications until the first updated ISO image is released, which is in August.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades

One can upgrade manually, if desired:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades/Kubuntu
If they haven't flipped the switch for general, non-LTS upgrades yet, this can be "forced" by using the "-d" switch in place of the "-m" one.
There is no timeline for enabling upgrades "early", or from non-LTS releases. It happens when they deem it safe in general, or any potentially serious issues are resolved, even if they are not common situations.

The Y2038 time_t thingy has slowed down things,
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/...untu-24-04-yet

Thanks for the reply. I tried the -d in konsole and nothing. I understand there was an issue and it was apparently breaking peoples systems. "Patience is a virtue".

[RedGreen925]

Thanks for the reply. I tried the -d in konsole and nothing. I understand there was an issue and it was apparently breaking peoples systems. "Patience is a virtue".

Here is a step by step method for doing it if you still want to try.

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-upgrade-...ntu-22-04-lts/

[Predestination]

I'm sorry all, I just found out, I'll be waiting until August when 24.04.1 drops, then I can upgrade from 22.04LTS. I don't recall what folks said exactly, they mentioned something about those on 22.04 having to wait until 24.04.1 releases.

[Joel64]

I'm sorry all, I just found out, I'll be waiting until August when 24.04.1 drops, then I can upgrade from 22.04LTS. I don't recall what folks said exactly, they mentioned something about those on 22.04 having to wait until 24.04.1 releases.

I had issues with 24.04 on my machines, so I'm waiting until x.x.01 as well. My main concern was the computer freezing up when transferring large numbers of files. It happened on 3 different machines, so I'm pretty sure it's not a machine-specific issue.

[shag00]

Most importantly make sure you are not running Nvidia driver higher than 535

[vanadiumboy]

I had Ubuntu 22.04 in a virtual machine. It proposed to update so, what the heck, I did it and the update went fine.

I have Kubuntu 23.10 on a real PC but with nothing important on it. There was a certain icon that appeared on the system tray that proposes an upgrade to 24.04. I gave it a try. It downloads about 2 GB of files and the upgrade went well.
I think the BIOS is a UEFI in compatibility mode thing. It has a nVidia 8500 GT, so it uses the nouveau drivers on 22.03, 32.10 and 24.04.
24.04 doesn't seem to have the Wayland thing. I guess that isn't ready either.

On my main machine, I guess I'll stay with 22.04 for a few months.

[claydoh]

24.04 doesn't seem to have the Wayland thing. I guess that isn't ready either.

It is there, you just need to install a package that adds the login session choice and other needed bits-- plasma-workspace-wayland. It looks like Kubuntu doesn't want to or can't support wayland for the LTS. No big deal, those that want to check it out can do so.