Share with the community your Lucid Lynx install/upgrade experience

*** Disclaimer for those willing to analyse this poll ***
- Most of users voting here are users with issues,
users with painless experience are not likely to come here. So the statistics here do not represent the reality.
- If you want to compare Lucid Lynx release with other ubuntu releases based on this poll then here are the previous polls (the only good reference to start an analysis) :
Karmic Koala - Click Me
Jaunty Poll - Click Me
Intrepid Poll - Click Me
Hardy Poll - Click Me
Gusty Poll - Click Me

You will find here a Summary proposed and maintained by NCLI - Click Me


The purpose of this thread is to share your experience installing/upgrading Lucid Lynx.

Did it work flawlessly ?
Did you get problems ?
Did you manage to solve them ?
if yes how ?
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Feel free to post your experience here and think to explain how you solved the problems you got, it might help other users in your case.

Thank you for contributing :KS

Congratulations to all the Ubuntu staff for an excellent upgrade package. Both my native x86 and virtual machine 9.10 to 10.04 upgrades performed flawlessly. Those were by far the easiest and cleanest Linux upgrades I have ever had the pleasure to carry out. Keep up the good work!


Regards

Dev Nuller (Unix user: 20 years, Linux user: 15years)

Did the upgrade to 10.04 this morning. overall time was about three hours. I use both Ubuntu and KDE and the upgrade blended both seamlessly. Nothing missing, everything working as it should. Kudos to the Ubuntu folks for the easiest upgrade I've ever done!

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Originally Posted by frodon

Most of users voting here are users with issues,
users with painless experience are not likely to come here. So the statistics here do not represent the reality.

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You could also say that most of the users here are Linux enthusiasts and are thus more likely to be able and willing to solve problems than the average user. If a new user tries to install Linux and it fails for them, they may not even ever bother to come to the distributors forum.

I bet the poll is optimistic if anything.

Install - worked but had few things to fix, nothing serious though

Actually only one issue. I installed the mini.iso and installed ubuntu-desktop from there. Upon reboot after choosing the kernel could not get the graphics to load. So had to edit and set add "nomodeset" parameter to the kernel and then it booted and had to edit /etc/default/grub the same way so it will always work.

Install - worked but had few things to fix, nothing serious though


Did a clean install from 9.10.


Version : Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64 Desktop using ext4 JFS.
Download time: Direct download in 11 minutes odd.
Issues: Broadcom drivers (STI not available through System> Hardware). Had to connect to the internet via ethernet, then apt-get install b43-fwcutter.
Machine installed on: HP DV6400t notebook AMD Turion x2 2.0GHz, Broadcom Wireless card, dual boot with Win 7.


Done. I'm in love all over again.

So I installed it... I am a newish user, I used Karmic Kubuntu but know very little of the inner workings.

Installed it,...so far so good....try to install broadcom drivers from cd...failure....try to connect to wireless using ralink 2860 (worked flawlessly in Karmic)....keeps saying preparing to connect and asking for the "secret"...

going back to koala i think

A couple things happened that didn't exactly inspire confidence.

1. Got an error just before the menu's appeared on the desktop of the Live CD - something to the affect of "error - there was a problem with the installation. WQill now take you to the live desktop where you can fix the problem before continuing"

Then the desktop appeared, with the install program. Lately, my DVD-RW drive has been acting up and it may be dirty or something. I've gotten "unable to mount device" messages several times in the last few weeks.

I never saw the "test cd for errors" screen, maybe an extra "enter" key in the buffer, and that's why it went straight to the desktop on boot?

2. After the rest of the install went flawlessly, I chose not to install grub (I was installing on an empty partition for testing first) and rebooted.

It gave me a page of IO errors and hung there, suspended, until I hit the reset switch on the front panel. That's the kind of stuff you get with BSD (only they make you go to the power switch on the back, "old school" style)

Maybe it was just me, but if it's happeneing to everyone, me thinks a lot of new users might say "it's not ready".

I'm running it now, posting this, and so far so good.

Tried upgrading via the update manager and it fails to even start downloading the files.
I keep getting told to check my net connection, the same net connection that I'm using to send this :)

I'd rather upgrade than download the ISO files and do a fresh install. I can download the ISO but am resisting doing the upgrade this way.

I just hope that that it's a busy server and things will return to normal soon.

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Originally Posted by dazcaz

Tried upgrading via the update manager and it fails to even start downloading the files.
I keep getting told to check my net connection, the same net connection that I'm using to send this :)

I'd rather upgrade than download the ISO files and do a fresh install. I can download the ISO but am resisting doing the upgrade this way.

I just hope that that it's a busy server and things will return to normal soon.

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I'm sure it is. The torrents are flying, took me about 10 minutes, the server version started slow, but after about 10 minutes took off, and finished in about 15 total. Every page at the site is slow, must be a few hundred thousand hitting it today - torrents are the way to go today.