Upgrade - worked flawlessly
Upgrade - worked but had a few things to fix, nothing serious though
Upgrade - had many problems that I've not been able to solve
Install - worked flawlessly
Install - worked but had a few things to fix, nothing serious though
Install - had many problems that I have not been able to solve.
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Fresh install, works fine except for the missing linux headers for ati and nvidia install. Otherwise Unity is much improved, HDMI video via VLC is smoother, everything running good.
Upgrade on my Lenovo T60 went flawless (original install dates from June 2010).
The iwl3459 bug (very slow downloads) seems to have found a fix at last.
Only quirk (after upgrading): sometimes the dash appears extremely slowly (takes several seconds) while the system overall reacts fine
Saved a snapshop in Back In Time and upgraded from 12.04. Except minor niggles, it was pretty smooth.
1. Desktop and Login window theme were messed up post upgrade. I had to reset to Ambiance.
2. Plugged in my backup drive. Back In Time complained backup partition does not exist. Update Manager commented out the custom mount line I had for the backup partition in /etc/fstab. Enabled the line.
I had a couple of third party apt sources for Ubuntu Tweak and Banshee. Both were commented out by update manager. I had to enable them both and updated the system. Finally ran Janitor in Ubuntu Tweak. Everything seems OK so far.
Just discovered my first two quirks with the Post Updated Xubuntu, both concerning GIMP.
First one, GIMP was updated from 2.6 to 2.8. Now, for some reason, zeitgeist-datahub is having a hissy fit when I reboot about every GIF file I edited with GIMP 2.6 before the update, showing a bunch of errors like the following:
Funny, it's right there, in plain sight. Fix is to re-edit every one of them with 2.8 & the error message goes away. Only 200 more to go. {sigh}Code:** (zeitgeist-datahub:2385): WARNING **: recent-manager-provider.vala:133: Desktop file for "file:///home/santafe/.themes/AntiGrey-Xfce/xfwm4/bottom-left-active.xpm" was not found, exec: gimp-2.6, mime_type: image/x-xpixmap
Second, apparently during the update I guess, one of the fonts got grunged. So when I was using the Text tool & scrolling up the menu (I usually use Verdana) I'd get to DroidSansEthiopic-Bold & GIMP would shutdown & Ye Old Crash Alert would pop-up. While I never use DroidSansEthiopic-Bold, it makes it hard to get towards the beginning of the alphabet with it there. Fix: I deleted DroidSansEthiopic-Bold.ttf from the /usr/share/fonts folder.
Other than that, Xubuntu 12.10 is working great. Not too shabby for a machine I've updated from 8.04 up till now.
This post is like Brigadoon!
Fresh install with nvidia GeForce 9400 GT gfx.
Booted into desktop using nouveau drivers.
The system would freeze or crash back to login screen randomly on mouse movement.
Installed proprietary nvidia and rebooted to a dis-functional desktop.
Stumbled on a post about purging nvidia and installing linux-headers.
Surely they must test the install on a common gfx card before releasing.Code:sudo apt-get purge nvidia* sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
Why so hasty to remove unity 2d which at least is a stable fallback mode?
I pity a new user trying 12.10 and trying to sort this out.
You might say a new user should use 12.04, but look at the download page
and if you were a new user which would you choose?
Last edited by stinkeye; November 4th, 2012 at 01:10 AM.
Most new users don't seem to pay a lot of attention to what's on the download page, they want the latest, even if it's pre-release, as we see in the U+! (VERSION$) sub-forum all the time.
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