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

[frodon]

*** 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.
If you want to compare Karmic release with other releases based on this poll anyway here are the previous polls :
Jaunty Poll
Intrepid Poll
Hardy Poll
Gusty Poll
Summary proposed by NCLI


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

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

[spuzzdawg]

I started my own thread but my post was probably better suited to something like this. I wrote:

I was trying to upgrade my 9.04 Leonovo 3000 C200 to 9.10 and X server appeared to crash early on in the installation. Screen went black like it normally does after a period of inactivity but wouldn't 'wake up' with the mouse or keys. HDD light was flashing like crazy so I assumed that the installation was continuing on without any display. After an hour or so the HDD light stopped flashing but the laptop had not restarted. After remaining in this state for a while it suddenly flashed a "Ubuntu in low graphics mode" error screen listing a bunch of errors in the window. At this point the latop completely crashed leaving an unbootable system.

I've got a 9.04 disk lying around from a linux format magazine so I've booted into that and backed up all my important information onto an external HDD (I know I should have done this before starting the upgrade) and am now downloading the 9.10 install disk via torrents to do a fresh install. Hopefully this fixes the problem.

spuzzdawg

[Dimarchi]

I had no trouble installing Karmic (clean install, not upgrade). There were problems after that, though. The first was GRUB error 15 on reboot, solved by selecting the other of the two hard drives I have in BIOS settings. The second was screen resolution after opting to install restricted drivers (fglrx, typed sudo aticonfig --initial -f in terminal before reboot after activation). Solved by aticonfig resolution stuff I have just for this purpose. The third appears to be printed related (not found): I have not yet spent time with that so it may be a non-issue.

The fourth is what has always been when there are two screens of different resolutions, compiz active, and fglrx in use - although the latter two may have nothing to do with it...doubt that, though. Firefox window does not remember size on the main screen on restart...it appears to resize itself to the smaller of the two screens. Vertically, at least, not sure about horizontal. It does make some sort of sense, however, when you think about it. Annoyance that can be avoided by disabling the second screen, I guess. It does not affect Thunderbird, which puzzles me.

[jhenager]

I jumped in with both feet last night. I did the upgrade using Update Manager, and I had over 1,400 packages to update. I let it run all night. When I woke up this morning, it was ready to remove obsolete packages, so I did that while I was shaving. When I checked back, it was ready to restart. When it came back up, my wallpaper was there, Desktop Effects were enabled - in short - painless.
The only minor tweak I had to make was to install some Language components. I just followed the prompts and again, no problems.
I can't wait to get home and play with it some more. I do think I am going to try to change the theme to something else. That brown is not very attractive. Other than that, I give it an A+ so far!

[noelvh]

I my self did a clean install and have not see any issues yet, and I am sure I will not. I did have some issues with the BETA, ware the wifi connection would get very slow, but it showed that I was at my normal 90% signal strength. Over all very happy.

I am running a IBM T43 with 2gb of ram, and ATI x300 with 128mb of ram.

Noel

[DustofDust]

Upgrade - got many problems that i have not been able to solve

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305459

so im not alone with this problem and filled the bugreport at launchpad.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/464591

hopefully i get soon some help, because my pc does not work since the upgrade...

[Charamei]

I dived in last night and despite some problems with my shoddy 'net connection dropping out, the upgrade process went without a hitch.

However, I have discovered two problems:

1. My WiFi no longer works. I was expecting this - my WiFi always breaks - but now the only drivers I have ever found which would talk to my chipset (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6) will no longer compile using sudo make. I cannot therefore reinstall them.

2. Nautilus seems to be having problems loading large folders. I have not had a chance to adequately test what went wrong, so can't be sure exactly, but here's what happened: I streamed a ~220 MB video file into my Videos directory and from there moved it into a more appropriate subdirectory. On following it in to check that it had moved properly, I found that the directory would not load; it just sat there with the 'loading' cursor. Moving up a level and back in fixed it, but on moving the file to the next subdirectory level the same thing occurred. This time a reboot was required - although since then the directory seems to be loading without issue. The folder in question is just under 3 GB in size.

[Angus77]

I have yet to successfully boot up Karmic.
I've installed desktop-amd64 twice---once via USB, once from a spare partition on my hard disk. Both times it seemed to install flawlessly, but then Karmic doesn't show up in the Grub2 menu.
Booting into my Jaunty partition, I could see that there's no vmlinuz in /boot on the Karmic partition.
This is so frustrating! Jaunty was a snap to install.

[johanbove]

Upgraded using Update Manager last night. The Upgrade process went smoothly and without issues. I chose to remove all the unsupported packages after verifying the list. It didn't look like anything really important was going to be removed.

After the first reboot i noticed something was different though. The usplash screen and login screen had been re-themed to "Xubuntu", with mouse logo and everything. This was strange since I just had "reinstalled" plain Ubuntu 9.04 from the CD a couple of days ago (I had messed up my setup by fooling around in the config files).

My "/home" folder, which I keep on a separate drive, probably contained references to Xubuntu which the Upgrade Installer interpreted perhaps? Don't know for sure.

But after applying the Gnome themes again, I was back up and running!
Great job on the installer programming!

[cyruses]

I did a fresh install of Jaunty Jackalope last Sunday, and last night I upgraded to Karmic Koala, only one problem, at random times right underneath the date and time i get a box of random colors for no reason at all. If I move my mouse to the box it dissappears but when I move away the cursor it comes back. Pic included