Share with the community your Jaunty Jackalope install/upgrade experience

[frodon]

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

Did it worked flawlessly ?
Did you got 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

[sox fan Matt]

Upgraded through Update manager..painless as always

[Xir]

Upgraded two VMs through do-release-update. Both with same hardware on them and the only difference being one was a LAMP box and the other was not. The one that was not worked flawlessly. The LAMP box failed to boot. Downloaded the server install CD and created a new VM in VMware Server. Began the install. Shortly after selecting my country and selecting "Begin the Install" the system sits there doing nothing.

I reinstalled using 8.10 and am trying the do-release-upgrade path again.

[kshane]

I use the ATI X-1650Pro, for which there is no driver at this time. I upgraded using the upgrade manager. My system boots but slows to a crawl and I am unable to use my mouse (can't click on anything). Have to hit "reset"...

Again, PO'd at ATI for their slowness in releasing new drivers.

Kevin

[Johnr123]

Originally Posted by kshane I use the ATI X-1650Pro, for which there is no driver at this time. I upgraded using the upgrade manager. My system boots but slows to a crawl and I am unable to use my mouse (can't click on anything). Have to hit "reset"... Again, PO'd at ATI for their slowness in releasing new drivers. Kevin

Kevin,

I also have an ATI x1650 Pro (mine is AGP by the way), and I have found the default driver that Ubuntu assigns to the card works well. I have had poor experience using the proprietary driver that comes up in the "Hardware Driver" tool search. Thought I'd mention that in case you haven't tried using the default driver that Ubuntu uses for that card.

Best of luck,
John

[ivan-frankfurt]

Upgrade from Kubuntu 8.04

Relatively smooth, but two problems I am still working to solve:

1) the nvidia driver
it just wont' work. The error in Xorg.0.log is not very clear
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
However, if I start a console and then type startx, then the real problem is shown:
the nvidia driver is version 180, but the nvidia kernel module is version 168.
I had always installed from restricted-drivers, not directly from the nvidia website, so not sure what the problem is.
nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx-180 are already the latest version according to apt-get
Right now I am using the vesa driver, so no 2nd monitor.

2) No menu bar in KDE. I have to start all apps from a console for now.

Aside from this, some minor errors on packages such as irda-utils.

I think next time I'll go for a clean install

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EDIT:
After a few hours I realized that the update was hopeless.
I did a clean install, it worked with no problems. I am glad I had separate partitions.
A colleague of mine did a 8.10 -> 9.04 install on comparable hardware and had no problems.

[Convert]

Originally Posted by ivan-frankfurt Upgrade from Kubuntu 8.04 Relatively smooth, but two problems I am still working to solve: 2) No menu bar in KDE. I have to start all apps from a console for now.

Sorry but I would not call having to run apps from the console to be a "relatively smooth" upgrade. To a typical Windows user, this kind of problem would be a show stopper and would turn them off from Linux.

[ububaba]

Originally Posted by kshane I use the ATI X-1650Pro, for which there is no driver at this time. I upgraded using the upgrade manager. My system boots but slows to a crawl and I am unable to use my mouse (can't click on anything). Have to hit "reset"... Again, PO'd at ATI for their slowness in releasing new drivers. Kevin

A problem has come up with both keyboard and mouse, both
freeze after the login. The cursor has been working perfectly
earlier today and even in other OS. I tried with a USB cursor
that too behaves in exactly the same manner. I have reinstalled 9.04
several times. But no help.

Any suggestions on how to solve this? Thanks.

[phillies]

Update not available, neither via update-manager nor via command line (apt-get dist-upgrade)
ran apt-get update maybe 20 times the last 30 minutes on my PC, nothing.
I started my notebook there the update manager but not the command line found the upgrade.
InCRAPid won't let me go...

[veribaka]

I think you need to open the update manager in order to update to another distro.