How buggy has 8.04 been for you

[lsutiger]

This is not how did you install experience go thread. I would like to know the bugs you have come across since you had Hardy installed and have a desktop to play/work in. Also tell if you chose the upgrade or went with a clean install.

Come one, come all! Please share your experience!
(I will add mine after a few replies)

[Dale61]

I went with the upgrade option as shown in my Update Manager back on April 25.

The d/l process took 100 hours (on dial-up) and any problems I've had haven't given me any reason to get on these forums complaining about how bad 8.04 is. In fact, the relatively few minor problems I've had have been easy to rectify with assistance within these forums.

[Sef]

Moved to Recurring Discussions.

[gameryoshi600]

some problems but they get fixed eventually.

[Istonian]

The problems I have are not Ubuntu specific.

[smartboyathome]

No problems, really. The only problems I have had have been my fault, not Ubuntu's. :p

[bufsabre666]

one problem but i cant blame ubuntu for ati's crappy drivers

[enoughsaid05]

Quite, but still liveable.

Like what someone has said, whenever the ubuntu crashes, it is normally my fault. I miss the days when the windows crashes, at least I can shift the blame to someone (like the big company for having such a lousy source code so that I can go to computer shops and ask for free repair under warranty).

Nonetheless, I rather get my hands dirty and start solving problems myself.

So far, 8.04 is an improvement from 7.10. Better hardware support, leaner and faster, and most of all, a collection of better softwares that my friends who are using windows are blissfully ignorant of.

Still, I would rate the latest ubuntu a 4 out of 5 rating and hopefully the next release would have full support for my laptop.

Cheers.

[Barrucadu]

I upgraded, and Compiz-Fusion no longer worked with my graphics card, and I couldn't install the ATI driver without X locking up. However, since I was just seeing what it was like before wiping the harddrive to go distro-hopping, it didn't really bother me.

[Beatbreaker]

easiest install ever- it auto detected my webcam and printer. I was very impressed with that.

[spamzilla]

The problems I have are not Ubuntu specific.

Likewise.

(pulseaudio / flash / java)

[Sand & Mercury]

Flawless for me.

[LarryJ2]

Fortunately, I've been putting /home on it's own partition. That way when I reinstall Ubuntu 8.04 hardy, I just tell the installer to format the /boot, the / and swap partitions but leave /home alone. (Sounds like a movie...). That saved me many times. I've reinstalled Hardy probably ten ore more times after giving up trying to fix some obscure but fatal problem.

The last thing that triggered a total reinstall was "Authenication Failure" message. Couldn't login. Previous to that sudo problems. Previous to that... I've forgotten. And how many times do I get stuck at 640x480 resolution? Many many times. Fortunately, nvidia settings and the nvidia restricted drivers usually save me. But I have learned to keep a copy of a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf!

I've learned it's simply easier to start over and reinstall (using my old /home partition) than it is to try to figure out what the problem is. gutsy sure wasn't like this which I use day to day. It's tempting to click the "upgrade version" button but I know better.

And I forgot to include "Application Evolutions wants access to default keyring" No passwords work!

[tdrusk]

My only problem is the flash firefox crash. Even though it isn't Ubuntu's fault, it's still Ubuntu's problem.

[CameO73]

Only had problems with Flash and Firefox, but those could be solved by using some later versions (Flash 10 beta and Firefox RC1).

I had upgraded my existing Gutsy installation (which was an upgrade from Feisty) to Hardy alpha 4 and continued from there.
When I stumbled upon a weird compiz error I decided to do a clean install. After that, smooth sailing!

[John T. Monkey]

i didnt experience any problems or bugs as such, firefox and flash are working ok.

the only thing i did find was that, even after i'd stopped all the services i could, it still uses nearly twice the memory gutsy did, before i even start doing anything... thats ok for now, bit this computer wont get changed or upgraded for atleast a few years, so i hope its not a trend thats going to continue with newer releases (at least that quickly)... :neutral:

[lsutiger]

OK I will post now. This was not a post/poll about how bad Ubuntu is...believe me, I love Linux and Ubuntu especially. I am now in the works of transferring my office computer over to Ubuntu 8.04. I run all of my Windows apps in virtual box. It is a headache, but I learn a little more each day.

I wanted to know what problems had and what I should expect. I chose the upgrade option on both of my computers, but I had a cloned hard drive for my laptop so I wouldn't have to go 'live'.

On the laptop, I have the ATI drivers installed from restricted drivers for an 1150 video card. When I boot up, the panel I have at the bottom turns into a white stripe. To fix it I have to go to properties and change a setting, then change it back and it is fine. I would like to fix that problem. There were a few other slight problems, but I did not spend any time fixing them.

On the desktop. which I use everyday it's been good but somewhat frustrating. When printing to a windows shared printer, it works when it wants basically. I had several problems before a huge update I did today, and it started working for again. We shall see. The CUPS-PDF printer was creating files that were not recognized by Adobe - not a good thing for an office environment dominated by MS. I can jot join the windows domain I am connected to with domianjoin-cli. I have googled to the end of the earth on this subject and there are so many different 'answers' to this problem. But the domianjoin-cli was the only one 8.04 specific one.

I can no longer access my DVD drive from my virtual box MS install. I need this to install programs I may need. I worked in 7.10, but since the upgrade it does not work.

So far, it is minor stuff, but quite inconvenient. If someone could help me with the panel problem on my laptop, I would upgrade tomorrow, as there are so many benefits in this release.

Happy computing!

[Trenchbroom]

Fortunately, I've been putting /home on it's own partition. That way when I reinstall Ubuntu 8.04 hardy, I just tell the installer to format the /boot, the / and swap partitions but leave /home alone. (Sounds like a movie...). That saved me many times. I've reinstalled Hardy probably ten ore more times after giving up trying to fix some obscure but fatal problem.

The last thing that triggered a total reinstall was "Authenication Failure" message. Couldn't login. Previous to that sudo problems. Previous to that... I've forgotten. And how many times do I get stuck at 640x480 resolution? Many many times. Fortunately, nvidia settings and the nvidia restricted drivers usually save me. But I have learned to keep a copy of a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf!

I've learned it's simply easier to start over and reinstall (using my old /home partition) than it is to try to figure out what the problem is. gutsy sure wasn't like this which I use day to day. It's tempting to click the "upgrade version" button but I know better.

And I forgot to include "Application Evolutions wants access to default keyring" No passwords work!

When I installed 7.04 on my desktop computer a year ago I separated the /home to it's own partition for the first time. Extremely glad that I did. 8.04 was the smoothest transition yet--thanks to having my /home preserved all of my settings were saved (except my emails in Thunderbird for some reason) and all I had to do was format root, point Ubuntu to my /home directory, and that was it.

All in all--8.04 is great!