Raring Installation & Upgrade Experiences

[Jenks141]

Ran an update from 12.10 on my desktop and a clean installation on the laptop. Both installations went well. The only problem I am having is with Yahoo Mail which will not display messages for more than a few seconds. It did work on the laptop until I agreed to install the Yahoo mail app when prompted to by Firefox. The desktop already had the app installed when I upgraded.

Other than the Yahoo mail issue 13.04 looks good.

[Tanker Bob]

Thanks, Jenks141, for the info on the Yahoo mail webapp. I, too, had it already installed on my desktop before upgrading. I disabled all webapps in Unity Tweak Tool and then Yahoo mail worked fine in Firefox. I then went into Synaptic and uninstalled unity-webapps-yahoomail. I renenabled webapp prompts and now all is right with that world. The Yahoo mail webapp was definitely the problem.

[dtconnor]

I upgraded from 12.10 and experienced "kernel panic" and could not boot the OS.
I then downloaded an iso image and did an install of 13.04 - not a clean install however.
I had a choice to install I guess you would say over the current installed 13.04 in order to save
many of my apps settings etc.
This worked as many have noted with out any problems except that Wicd broke, which
actually is OK as Wicd isn't supported very well.
I am quite happy that virtualbox had no issues through all this.

Since I am relatively new - not sure I didn't bite off more than I could chew.
I caused myself more pain by ripping out and reinstalling nm that I needed too
but with some great help here I got that fixed in about an hour.

Over all I am happy - coming from Windows I can say I have experienced
a lot worse

[Jenks141]

Thanks Tanker Bob followed you steps to remove the Yahoo webapp and all seems OK now.

[alan9800]

for some weird reason, few time after the installation both Xubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.04 gave me problems with my video card (probably because it is an old ATI HD2400XT); hence I've had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04, which is the one that has always worked fine.

[dale52]

i upgraded from lubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 no problems, yahoo worked fine, thunderbird worked fine too didnt even have a problem with my wireless broadcom 4311 worked surprisingly
dell inspiron e1405
60 gig hdd
2.5 gig ram

[qishoushi]

I upgraded when prompted. It went very smooth. The only problem I have now is that Yahoo Mail checks mail every 2 seconds making it impossible to read email. It does not do this in other browsers of OS's.

[Tanker Bob]

qishoushi,

Read post #12 on how to fix Yahoo mail.

[SteelGoo]

Hi there. I ran the upgrade from 12.10 and it worked well except for the resolution on the TV. All my 16:10 resolutions disappeared and the 16:9 choices are too big for the TV. I had this issue when I first installed 12.10 and I fixed it with the xorg.conf file but that didn't work this time. I have a small form factor Acer with an Intel Sandybridge graphics card and I use it to run XBMC on a cheap LED 42" TV. I am working through the forums for a fix now but may end up doing a fresh install.

[wyth]

I upgraded from 12.04, and ran into some issues.

Background: I've just been doing in-place software manager upgrades for a couple years. This was starting to leave some issues, and recently after another kernel update my touchpad ceased to work. So I decided to upgrade to 13.04 to see if that would help, and again did it through the software manager. That didn't solve my issues, the system was incredibly sluggish, and things just weren't working well.

So I used the live disk and reinstalled the system files while leaving my home directory alone. I was reticent to do this, because once time that process locked me out of my encrypted home directory. That didn't happen this time, and the reinstallation took care of the speed issues, the touchpad problem, and a number of other little things (the system has only hard-locked on me once in four days; usually it does that once or twice a day).

However, there is a problem with the launcher autohiding. It will autohide, but it leaves a blank space in place of the launcher, and any full-screen apps are cut off/covered by that blank space on the left side of the screen. There's a bug report on this in launchpad, and I've posted images of my desktop's issue there.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1078075
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/13866...er.problem.png