Share with the community your Hardy install/upgrade experience

[frodon]

The purpose of this thread is to share your experience installing/upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

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

[ThomasWM]

Upgrade worked well.
Only problem I've found is that my bank's website refuses FF3 and I had to load FF2.
A problem still unresolved from Gutsy is the failure correctly to stream BBC7 sound.
The sound is very distorted. (Still, that's nothing to do with the upgrade!)

[mewt]

kek, upgraded to hardy around 7 weeks ago, painless then, painless now with the latest update

[CatKiller]

Upgrade worked brilliantly, but arbitrarily removed some packages (like Pioneers).

The kernel configuration that's been used for scheduling that means that audio stutters when running anything as root is a bit... annoying.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/188226

[nereid]

The upgrade was rather flawless (besides the point, which haunts me since Dapper, that my boot partition is too small with 32mb ).

I just encountered another problem. Since the upgrade all of my KDE apps need very long to start, if they even do it. Firefox and Thunderbird work without a hitch, but using KDE without the inbuild apps is sometimes a little bit hard to do.

EDIT: I think that this has something to do with the scim-bridge. I haven't installed the scim-client for GTK and this just reinforced my first impression.

2nd EDIT: Yep, removing scim did the job. Now everything is as it should be

[z0mbie]

Upgrade went very smoothly. Very satisfied with the upgrade. Thank you developers for doing a great job!

[Kowalski_GT-R]

fresh install --> flawless

ATI restricted drivers --> black screen during boot


I haven't been able to solve it yet. Card is a Radeon 1900.
Actually running without installing the cursed drivers...

[ssj3strife]

I've been running the Beta for awhile, and I guess I don't need to do anything other than keep up with the updates to make sure I get the release version? That's nice and convenient, but I think a little window saying "Congrats, you're no longer running a beta OS" or something would have been nice for piece of mind.

(That's appropriate for this thread, right?)

[Neobuntu]

Now is the time when everyones patience runs out and they just have to try the new "release". The problem is, this should (generally and recommended) only be done as a separate install; for testing. The real (production) stability comes at about 3 months after now. Yes, Three months before the next release. It's a catch, but the way things work, we get the most testing and hardening started now (New stuff with stability and compatibility; ) after the "official" release.

I, myself, am about to pop. I want to use a better; new version on my main systems. Yet, I write to remind myself and you, this now, is the real beta test (IMHO). Think of it as a post beta tester. Just do not, upgrade your main and only working system and expect perfection at this point. While you may skate by, experience has shown, it's a gamble at this point.

This is especially difficult with (dist) upgrading your system that is now much used and in place. Multiple OS systems take up time and you can only upgrade an existing system. This all leads to "trying it" on your one and only system. About half the people then needing an unbeatable, clean install and about as many then giving up, on open software because of (dist)"upgrading" instead of clean installing!

If you are not an "expert" and you have the one install, I'm writing this for you. You'd probably be wise, to wait. See, I can hopefully work through any breakages and maybe you can too. Yet, I've learned, I don't really have the time for that. Therefore, the battle within, rages heavily.

I sincerely hope this helps someone.

I still observe, a new (managed/Dist) up-grader can't be stable, until it is too old (3 months plus, give or take.) anymore, so what's the point? How can you upgrade to what's not really stabilized yet??? Clean installing is faster, safer and better. That includes time for easy and fast backups of your stuff. The total time is less. Often, the nature of a new Six month release, includes foundational improvements (which is a good thing). Foundational changes strongly suggest, clean installs are better. I hope the clean install has (surely) come to be more intelligent/enhanced. I still wonder if a convoluted "managed dist-upgrade" effort would be better directed at super managed clean install instead. Maybe that's what's happening. I don't know. One can hope. It seems to me, pushing the one choice of super easy and managed clean install (like "/home" retention) takes away half the development work and time. Allowing a better (k)ubuntu. That, IMHO.

This would undoubtedly be somewhat of a hybrid; by nature. Semantics and vocabulary aside, it could be better. For example: Think of a live upgrade that is also a true clean install, thus a standard starting point for everyone using it. Then think about it also being a super intelligent, clean installer that handles all your needed transition. Would we not ALL be better off then?

[kxr1der]

DO i have to worry about the upgrade writing over my windows partition if i do an upgrade not an install.