View Poll Results: What was your gutsy install/upgrade experience ?

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  • Upgrade - worked flawlessly

    566 10.33%
  • Upgrade - worked but had few things to solve

    1,136 20.73%
  • Upgrade - got many problems that i've not been able to solve

    928 16.94%
  • Install - worked flawlessly

    639 11.66%
  • Install - worked but had few things to solve

    1,274 23.25%
  • Install - got many problems that i've not been able to solve

    936 17.08%
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  1. #1
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    Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

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

    Did it worked flawlessly ?
    Did you got problems ?
    Did you manage to solve them ?
    if yes how ?
    ...
    ...
    .

    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

  2. #2
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Updated through Ubuntu and (after a 13-14 hour process) I rebooted to a new, working version. Yay!

  3. #3
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    I voted "Upgrade worked flawlessly". I did have to install the restricted nvidia driver, and activate the 3D stuff, but I consider this an 'extra', as the system works ok without it, so I do not count them as issues that 'need' resolving.
    The last great frontier is In Your Mind!

  4. #4
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Where's the upgrade failed or didn't even get started option. I tried to upgrade through the update manager but the servers are obviously going into meltdown. I'll leave it for a few days now.

  5. #5
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    I'm going to upgrade right now. I wanted to have a look at the forums in order to know some other's experience before doing it.

    Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression.

    Since dapper, I had overall positive upgrades with only minor problems.
    Last edited by zasf; October 19th, 2007 at 09:56 AM.

  6. #6
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    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    The upgrade from 7.04 didn't finish, it said it was unable to install libxml-libxml-perl, perl-simple and update-manager. Then it quit. No idea what was going on and scared to reboot, as it had crashed about half-way through installing the files. Then I backed up and rebooted and things were working. Not happy though, don't know if it's a proper upgrade or only half-a-one, though things SEEM to be in order - never got any feedback as to what went wrong from the system, besides that those packages had failed their install.

    I installed the perl stuff from cpan and update-manager seems to be up to date, so I don't know what it was going on about.

    Also when I pause my mouse on a menu item long enough for the tooltip to appear, I need to wait until the tooltip disappears before another menu item is selected when I hover my mouse over it. Very Annoying(TM).

  7. #7
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by zasf View Post
    Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression.
    Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum.
    Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum.

  8. #8
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Command line upgrade seemed to go well, but now gnome-panel won't load [even for a fresh user account, not sure if other parts load either], and the kernel parameter vga=791 gives a blank screen while booting [without splash and quiet].

  9. #9
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by frodon View Post
    Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum.
    Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum.
    I'm aware it is not easy, still forum staff is really good thanks for your work

  10. #10
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    I've had no problems (that I can remember) installing and upgrading my Gutsy.

    First off, I downloaded the DVD image about 10 days ago with the Release Candidate. Even though I have an Athlon 64 X2, I'm running the i386 binaries because I need the Java plugin to work perfectly for my internet banking*.

    After a fresh install, almost everything worked out of the box, including nVidia proprietary drivers and Compiz-Fusion. The only annoying thing was that VirtualBox OSE doesn't work if you just install the packages, but nothing that I couldn't solve with google and 4 copy-and-pasted lines of shell commands.

    Finally, I installed all updates that were released since my install. Voilà. Yesterday, before the official release, my system was already running the final Gutsy Gibbon release...

    My hardware is as follows:
    Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (oc@2.77 GHz)
    ASRock 939NF6G Motherboard (nVidia nForce chipset)
    3GB DDR400
    2 SATA + 1 IDE hard-drives
    nVidia 8600GT 512MB

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