[all variants] Share with the community your Karmic Koala install/upgrade experience

[witeshark17]

It must be a matter of personal taste. IMO, all of the new themes and looks in 9.10 are awesome to say the least. I'm not changing any at all; I love the new look. Performance (boot up) has improved for me as well.

[kalos]

I did an upgrade from Jaunty and had some problems. I have an extra partition to mess around with other OSs on, so I did a clean install there. It's been working great, so I haven't bothered dealing with the upgrade. I'll probably wipe my old install when Lynx comes out.

Upgrades are never clean enough for me. I'd always rather do a clean install and I organize my data to reflect this. The problems tend not to be in the OS update, but in new programs not liking the dot files made by older versions. (And you don't see all the new goodness if you have an old profile.)

[davyzhu]

I have used 9.04 for few months and love it. So, I tried both
9.04->9.10 upgrade and 9.10 clean installation. The conclusion is both
failed.

9.04->9.10 upgrade: I make a mistake when the upgrade ask me whether
to restart when the package is not fully downloaded. After restart,
system crash.

9.10 installation: all the install process goes well. But when enter
gnome, all program turn black and not response to my mouse and
keyboard. And the boot time of system take more than 1 minutes. So I
delete 9.10 and re-install 9.04.

I guess 9.10 release schedule is hasty and not fully verified. Anyway,
9.04 is so good that I can say farewell to Windows XP. In fact, I am
an Emacs user, as you know, Windows and Linux make no difference
on Emacs, Emacs itself is a OS

BTW, My computer hardware is old, a HP laptop I brought 3 years
ago. Maybe I should buy a new laptop?

[Multi_User]

I used the Update Manager to upgrade from 9.02 to 9.10 (with a vmware machine, bridged ethernet) and after it rebooted, none of the networking was working. For a while it would not even connect to the networking. And then after messing with it, I could connect by direct IP but no hostname would resolve. After that, I rebooted it, turned IPv6 on (automatic) and off (ignore) and then everything started working. Weird.

[blueridgedog]

Originally Posted by awd-s I have my doubts about the abolishment of Synaptic Package Manager.

It is still there an I have not seen any information that implies it is soon to go. The application tool that is new is in addition to it.

[iamwhatiseem]

Twice this has happened...I download the iso - and the file - after a complete 40 minute downlaod - is somehow only showing up as 120k.

[ismailkimyacioglu]

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 from the upgrade manager. It worked flawlessly and had no problem during the upgrade. However, in my Samsung NC10 netbook, some of the function keys stopped working such as brightness up and down. And I don't know how to solve it.

I had expected that the boot time will be lower. But I feel that it is not lower. Shutdown is definitely faster. It takes around 2 to 3 seconds.

I have another notebook and made a fresh install. It had some strange problems at the beginning. For instance, it doesn't recognize windows start button to open the panel main menu. Manually, I did that. But interesting. You really expect that it will be nicer and better than the previous version. But you can face some interesting problems not existing in the previous version.

Anyway, overall, I am still very happy with my Ubuntu 9.10. It works very nice for my business.

[Rounin]

I'm sorry to report this, but for once I'm very disappointed with the new release. Upgrading from 9.04 with apt-get wasn't a good idea – The upgrade was interrupted several times by errors that had to be addressed, and when it had finally finished, GRUB's menu.lst had disappeared.

When the time came to boot the new installation, the system hung on each boot due to a bizarre bug whereby X is somehow started before the system has booted, and starts competing with cryptsetup, which is still trying to mount some encrypted disks, for control of the console.

It's one thing that a few bugs managed to slip by the beta testers and wind up in the final release, but that the buggy release hasn't been revoked and replaced by an updated release is very disappointing.

To add insult to injury, now that it's finally up and running it's become infested with Pulseaudio again... And what do you know, no sound.

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It's now been a few hours, and it looks like the problems are unsolvable for now.

Despite the announced "bootwait" fix, the encrypted partitions now have to be mounted manually rather than at boot time. Listing them in fstab as "bootwait" causes the system to hang differently, but it still hangs.

Audio seems to be absent due to a problem with ALSA, so PulseAudio didn't return from the dead to disable sound after all, just to taunt me.

As the computer is due to be replaced in a few days, it might as well remain that way, but the new computer will probably not be running Ubuntu 9.10.

[billstei]

Upgrade went good overall, but ended up with the swap partition having a new UUID, so that the entry in fstab was no longer valid. Using "sudo blkid" I found the new UUID and edited fstab to correct this.

[zman58]

I had installed Karmic Koala on Dell Latitude E6400. Everything worked except for pointing device. The left key (select) seems to hang up and pointer does not move properly.
If I plug in a USB mouse, the problem goes away. Mouse actions work perfectly and at that point the integrated touch pad and pointer buttons work perfectly.
To summarize, using a mouse makes the problem go away.

I had installed Karmic Koala on a recent Athlon 64 X2 system built from scratch. It installed perfectly. Everything worked. PC Chips motherboard.

I have installed Karmic on several other systems which resulted in no problems. Everything worked perfectly.

There was one problem with an older Nvidia card. After I enabled the restricted driver, the display was very low resolution. I had to add a Monitor section in xorg.conf with specific layout to get the higher resolution that the CRT monitor was capable of. Monitor was a Viewsonic 19" P70.