Raring Installation & Upgrade Experiences

[cariboo]

Please tell us about your experience upgrading, or doing a fresh install of Raring RIngtail

Keep in mind that this thread is only for your experience, if you are having problems, please create a thread in the support forums.

[tecknomage]

I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 12 to Ubuntu 13 via the OnLine Upgrade Tool.

Also I use the GNOME Classic environment/desktop.

I did make both image and archive backups of v12 first.

The Upgrade Tool ran without a hitch.

After reboot at end of the upgrade I did run into a problem logging in to GNOME. Switch to the Ubuntu login and that worked.

When I restarted and went to change back to GNOME I found that GNOME Classic was not listed, GNOME Fallback is. GNOME Fallback = GNOME Classic and login worked.

SO FAR all the main apps work as expected, my special 3rd-party game (Eschalon Book 2) worked, and my WinShare folder and remote printing worked.

Hope others have the same experience =D>

[Tanker Bob]

Upgraded from 12.10 on my desktop last night. The upgrade process went flawlessly. After restarting, I had a few small issues. Yahoo Mail no longer works right in Firefox, though FF is the same version that was in 12.10. Radio Tray lost its ability to display on the indicator bar, and the Thunderbird icon on the launcher no longer displays the number of new messages. Compiz Expo no longer works, but crashes Compiz when summoned. Ubuntu bugged me about Google contacts the first several times that I launched Thunderbird, but has finally stopped. All little stuff. Still looking for a solution to the Yahoo mail thing, though. It polls for new mail every 1.5 seconds or so, so I cannot do anything but display the inbox. I've checked all the settings but don't see anything wrong.

The best news is that VMWare Workstation 9.x still works fine. That's unusual for upgrades and very welcome.

[Frogs Hair]

Both beta and final installed without any problem. There was a problem in beta not related to the installation of the operating system. So far I have tried Razor QT and E17 for a little while. I'm back to Unity - Gnome Shell, and XFCE.

[avidesh]

upgrade was clean without any issues. However post upgrade Thunderbird is not working.
getting the attached error.
I even re installed Thunderbird but same error


Screenshot from 2013-04-27 12:44:48.jpg

[carl4926]

I have been testing thru development.
Installed what was basically RC last week and just let it update to release ....
Great improvement IMO on my eeepc

[alan9800]

I made a clean installation of Xubuntu 13.04 and all works fine.

[Myglaren]

As Tanker Bob experienced, Yahoo mail will not display any of the filtered mail in folders for longer than a few seconds, this is in both the 32 bit and the 64 bit versions.

[deadflowr]

Ran a clean install the other day... quite successful.

Ran an upgrade on a long in the tooth system today... super successful.
All my programs work.
My printer still works.
Have all my files still.

Only real issue was I needed to resync my Ubunutone folders.
Not a big issue and one that I instigated myself by changing the password for it a while ago and never resyncing systems.

Now, for the first time in about a year, I am quantal-less.
Next week, I'll be switching a raring install to saucy.
But that's another story...

[goldshirt9]

Normally I install only LTS releases, but thought give it a go.
WoW superfast at start up 18 sec or so.
no problems so far, everything I use works a treat.Except for transfering files / movies / music / password effortless.
WELL DONE for a great release
installed on
Siemens Fujitsu AH531 laptop
Intel® Core™ i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz × 4
Intel® Sandybridge Mobile
64-bit
7.7 GiB ram