Share with the community your Intrepid Ibex install/upgrade experience

[frodon]

The purpose of this thread is to share your experience installing/upgrading Intrepid Ibex.

Did it worked flawlessly ?
Did you got 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

[mxrush76]

Is too slow, i will download the alternate cd and i will upgrade on this way... i know is not the best option but the network upgrade is very slow!!!

[Spherous]

It said cleaning for a longggggg time, fianlly, finished cleaning, and it shows the apps that need to be removed. Its EVERY app on my PC.

"544 Package are going to be removed."
I'm tempted to just say keep instead of remove.
Its removing everything from compiz to awn, to pidgin to firefox it even wants to remove Xorg and Xserver. -.-"
Should I keep and do a sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade?

[tootlet]

Greetings,
Downloaded Xubuntu 8.10 AMD64 RC1 yesterday. Tried installing after upgrading to 6Gb of RAM. Installed fine. Then did upgrades. Downloaded packages but hung on "installing" in Synaptic. Reinstalled twice and tried using CLI to upgrade to new release today. Hung again at installing the generic kernel. Now I've downloaded Xubunut 8.10 AMD64 Intrepid Ibex and am giving that a try. I'll also be installing Ubuntu later on a different machine. No luck yet but I'm having fun.

[mmeclimate]

Hi,

I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, today.
The reboot process did not work and I got the following message:

0.004000 Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.

I've read some threads that other people had the same problem. I rebooted it again and pressed 'ESC', then I selected the following kernel: 2.6.24-24-generic and then I was able to reboot properly and go to the log in window.

Why isn't kernel 2.6.27-7-generic not working?
Is there a fix for this?

Thanks!

Michael

[mstorin]

It said cleaning for a longggggg time, fianlly, finished cleaning, and it shows the apps that need to be removed. Its EVERY app on my PC.

"544 Package are going to be removed."
I'm tempted to just say keep instead of remove.
Its removing everything from compiz to awn, to pidgin to firefox it even wants to remove Xorg and Xserver. -.-"
Should I keep and do a sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade?

Would be nice to get an answer to this issue (Hangs on "cleaning"). Mine been sitting for hours.

[lisati]

Background: I'm using the "relase candidate" versions downloaded a day or two back. Here is a summary of results so far:

Laptop 1: Older Toshiba laptop, Celeron M, 256Mb ram. Previously dual boot Feisty & XP. Pretty much flawless clean install from alternate disk. Pleasantly surprised that sound worked out of the box (it didn't with Feisty, installing updates fixed that) Using the Ubuntu desktop seems sluggish at times (with disk activity noted: perhaps swapping? haven't really looked into it yet) but using the xubuntu desktop seems to be better.

Laptop 2: Fairly new Toshiba, a dual-code machine 2Gb, 64-bit. Wubi'ed install "within" Vista home premium. The only thing noted so far that needs my attention is the need of a suitable version of flash player plugins, but I'm not in a great rush to get that one sorted out.

Compaq desktop: there's something odd going on with the partitions here (resizing seems to be causing problems) so this one will have to wait. At the risk of upsetting the "Linux-only" team, this one's staying "XP only" for now.

I'll just whip off and configure samba for proper file sharing.....

[denham2010]

I am soooo impressed with Intrepid.

The update worked flawlessly. No problems whatsoever.

No issues to fix either. Everything is working same, if not better than before (a couple of niggling Hardy issues are now gone!)

Best update ever!

[Wee Aldo]

Did an inhouse upgrade also downloaded the live cd and installed with wubi inside Vista Business had absolutely no problems with either type of install/upgrade,all hardware detected on Desktop/Laptop.

[kneewax]

aaaaaaaaaaarggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!

Having confidently and easily upgrady to Hardlyon release date, I lept into Intrepid without too much of a worry BUT o'biy was this a different experience.

Unlike others on the forum my upgrade process itself went OK, took about 90minutes including package download, but no major errors.

UNTIL I actually booted it. Sure she booted OK, although I reackon at 3 minutes from power up to login screen is a much longer than in hardy. However, although my discovered errors are small in number they are fundemental to operations.

Let's start with Nautilus. If I go to my bookmarks, I am totally unable to use these to navigate around the filesystem. The first time I try any of the bookmarked shortcuts VLC opens and starts playing Harry Connick Jr!?!?! After that the book marks just stop working.

The second problem I have, is to do with OOo. In hardy I was running OpenOffice 3.0, this got totally fouled up by the upgrade process and would not run so I removed all componants of OOo and downloaded and re-installed Ooo3.0. Now I can get openoffice to run , but when started there is no text on the menu bars, I cannot type anything and the application won't open files I have already saved.

So far those are the major issues I have found, but I am sure there are more. There are a whole host of minor problems and glitches I have found so far, but to numerous to list here.

Right now, just for productivity purposes I would rather just downgrade if it were an easy thing to do. I guess I might have to dig out the Hardy Cd if I can't fix these things tonight.

A disappointed Kneewax