My HP dv7 laptop--the one I've been debating repairing or donating--was running 12.04 very happily. I've long since copied everything I needed over to the new System76 laptop, so the dv7 has just kind of been sitting around idle for the most part. (Ironically, it has *NOT* been running hot at all lately. Go figure!) Well, about a week ago it started nagging me about upgrading to 14.04, so a few days ago I went ahead and started it. Note that I normally prefer to do a clean install, wiping my root partition and installing a newer version of the OS on a nice, clean drive. But I figured, what the hell?! So it finished the upgrade and everything was fine and dandy. Until today when I shut it down for a while. When I turned it back on, I got a bunch of error messages and ended up with nothing but a login prompt. 
(Good thing I'm a command line person at heart.) I'm outside on my patio right now, typing on my Chromebook and frankly don't care enough to post any of the error messages or anything from the HP. I think the moral of the story is that, for me at least, it really is best to do a clean install vs a version upgrade, so now I'll add that to my list of things to do with the HP...if I decide to keep and repair it. 
(Good thing I'm a command line person at heart.) I'm outside on my patio right now, typing on my Chromebook and frankly don't care enough to post any of the error messages or anything from the HP. I think the moral of the story is that, for me at least, it really is best to do a clean install vs a version upgrade, so now I'll add that to my list of things to do with the HP...if I decide to keep and repair it.
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