Share with the community your Karmic Koala install/upgrade experience

[xyzt]

I tried both an upgrade and a clean install.

Whichever was the case, no application was able to reach the Internet but the console ping command. That included repository access and update manager (and, of course, e-mail client and web browser).

That is quite a contrast from a flawless upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04.

That happened before (7.10? 8.04?) and only was solved when the new version came up. There was not even an hint about which could have been the problem.

So, it's a no-no for all the thirty-so computers I'm responsible for.

[sieve]

Upgraded 2 machines from 9.04. Took a LONG time to download all the files.... seemed like much longer than when I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 6 months ago. Fortunately, I let it do all of that overnight.

I haven't tried or tested everything yet, but no problems so far.

[Nathan949]

I upgraded from Jaunty using the update manager, and my computer is now starting much more slowly; well over a minute when it used to be 30 seconds; as well as the sound cutting out at below 30%.

[crhubert]

I tried to upgrade 2 machines an IBM x3200 and a Lenovo T400 ThinkPad Laptop both from fully patched Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 both installations give the message
" init: rc-default main process (1216) terminated with status 127 "
This message is USELESS ...... previously the installation did say that it had not been successful and the changes were being backed out .... I guess not ???
Prior to this disaster I was pretty happy with Ubuntu ...... I am not an expert but a fairly capable user .... I can't even get to a command line to attempt to repair. Does anyone know how to get to use-able command line (the command line from grub is more or less useless. My upgrade experience was an absolute '0' . This is worse than windows !

[Nintendo01]

I successfully upgraded to Karmic, but the madwifi drivers that I had going in Jaunty (using the Hardware Drivers applet to enable them as restriced drivers, not manually installed) weren't there after the upgrade. The ath5k driver that it used (after I un-blacklisted it) instead would take forever to connect to my network, and then it would be so slow as to be unusable. I tried a couple of different manual installs of madwifi and they would never work. I did re-blacklist ath5k and add ath_pci to /etc/modules. The drivers did load, but it could never connect to the network at all. I ended up having to go back to Jaunty to get it working again.

I'd like to know why the madwifi drivers aren't included in the install like in Jaunty and are actually removed during the upgrade if they are installed.

For the record, I have an Atheros AR2413 card that works flawlessly with Jaunty's madwifi restricted drivers, but barely functions with ath5k in either Jaunty (before activating the restricted madwifi drivers) or Karmic, and doesn't work at all with manually installed madwifi in Karmic.

[bkline]

My experience was wretched.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308783

[sloggerkhan]

So I have a netbook acer aspire one. It's worked perfectly with 9.10 since beta.
Love it. Went perfectly.

Desktop, on the other hand, was painful. I did a fresh install and then copied over a few important config files. Getting latest nvidia up and running with vdpau for smplayer was a pain. Had to mess around with some ppas and do the nvidia driver install to get a combination that worked.

Similarly, there's some sort of meaningless kernel error on boot that doesn't cause issues and appears every boot. Really long thread on it on launchpad.

I keep having audio issues. I am thinking of removing pulse audio to seeing if it's any improvement. With relative frequency random apps will lose audio out capability. Some programs, such as glx version of nexuiz (sdl works fine) are unusable with pulse audio.

Likewise, sometimes quitting nexuiz lock up the xsession and I have to do services gdm restart from console.

Empathy won't import my old pidgin contacts (it offers to, then doesn't), so I just installed pidgin. It seems to have more features than empathy anyhow.

Flash also seems to be performing worse. I might try the beta 64 bit flash from adobe if I get around to it.

Basically, 9.10 is great for my netbook, but it's got lots and lots of small irritating issues on my desktop.

I was planning to upgrade my server-router machine, but I will probably wait till the lts, especially after hearing about people having major problems with MDADM software raid with an upgrade.

[Nick Rhodes]

Originally Posted by frodon Just so you know laptop mode is obsolete and not maintained anymore. Use pm-utils instead, you should be able to configure it to suit your needs.

Thanks.

[bobnutfield]

I upgraded (no fresh install) my netbook (AAO), my desktop and my main laptop. All the upgrades went fine with a couple of hiccups on the main laptop because it is a triple boot with two other distros (Fedora and Slackware). Both the desktop and the main laptop have been upgraded since Intrepid (8.10). So far, I have noticed pretty much the same performance on all three as there was in Jaunty, except boot is considerably slower and shutdown is considerably faster. Go figure.

Just like all of the previous releases. there are going to be people who expereince problems to some degree, but I expect that most if not all will be resolved in furture updates as they have always done. The wireless signal is weaker on all three, but that is about it for me.

So for me, it was pretty much a wash....no harm, but no improvement either.

[kerhove]

The upgrade was already very slow. I had a few errors, but could not report then. When I tried that gave also errors. I had to use some tricks to get the upgrade going. Now ubuntu 9.10 is slowly crawling along.
I have a 4core 64bit Intel processor, 4GB ram and 500GB disk and everything is so slow, i can not believe it myself.
Ubuntu 9.04 worked fine, but the upgrade to 9.10 is not workable.
This upgrade was not tested as it should be.

When you see the stats, the most part of the users have problems.

If ubuntu, which i defend like crazy against windows specialist, wants to get the common user the upgrade should be flawless.