Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

[frodon]

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

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

[ElSeeDee]

Updated through Ubuntu and (after a 13-14 hour process) I rebooted to a new, working version. Yay!

[DavidTangye]

I voted "Upgrade worked flawlessly". I did have to install the restricted nvidia driver, and activate the 3D stuff, but I consider this an 'extra', as the system works ok without it, so I do not count them as issues that 'need' resolving.

[DeadEyes]

Where's the upgrade failed or didn't even get started option. I tried to upgrade through the update manager but the servers are obviously going into meltdown. I'll leave it for a few days now.

[zasf]

I'm going to upgrade right now. I wanted to have a look at the forums in order to know some other's experience before doing it.

Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression.

Since dapper, I had overall positive upgrades with only minor problems.

[firsttry]

The upgrade from 7.04 didn't finish, it said it was unable to install libxml-libxml-perl, perl-simple and update-manager. Then it quit. No idea what was going on and scared to reboot, as it had crashed about half-way through installing the files. Then I backed up and rebooted and things were working. Not happy though, don't know if it's a proper upgrade or only half-a-one, though things SEEM to be in order - never got any feedback as to what went wrong from the system, besides that those packages had failed their install.

I installed the perl stuff from cpan and update-manager seems to be up to date, so I don't know what it was going on about.

Also when I pause my mouse on a menu item long enough for the tooltip to appear, I need to wait until the tooltip disappears before another menu item is selected when I hover my mouse over it. Very Annoying(TM).

[frodon]

Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression.

Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum.
Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum.

[inhabit]

Command line upgrade seemed to go well, but now gnome-panel won't load [even for a fresh user account, not sure if other parts load either], and the kernel parameter vga=791 gives a blank screen while booting [without splash and quiet].

[zasf]

Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum.
Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum.

I'm aware it is not easy, still forum staff is really good thanks for your work

[dilney]

I've had no problems (that I can remember) installing and upgrading my Gutsy.

First off, I downloaded the DVD image about 10 days ago with the Release Candidate. Even though I have an Athlon 64 X2, I'm running the i386 binaries because I need the Java plugin to work perfectly for my internet banking*.

After a fresh install, almost everything worked out of the box, including nVidia proprietary drivers and Compiz-Fusion. The only annoying thing was that VirtualBox OSE doesn't work if you just install the packages, but nothing that I couldn't solve with google and 4 copy-and-pasted lines of shell commands.

Finally, I installed all updates that were released since my install. Voilà. Yesterday, before the official release, my system was already running the final Gutsy Gibbon release...

My hardware is as follows:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (oc@2.77 GHz)
ASRock 939NF6G Motherboard (nVidia nForce chipset)
3GB DDR400
2 SATA + 1 IDE hard-drives
nVidia 8600GT 512MB